Jesse Ball
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Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet.
He has published books, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings.
His works are distinguished by their use of a spare style and have been compared to Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino's.
Early life and education
Ball was born in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island, with a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School and Vassar College.
Following Vassar Ball's graduation from Columbia University, where he received an MFA and met poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then-24-year-old poet publish his first collection, March Book, with Grove Press.
Personal life
Thordis Bjornsdottir, a writer and novelist who collaborated with on two books and later divorced, was born in Iceland and died. Ball and Catherine Lacey, a writer, were partners from 2016 to 2021.
Ball has been living in Chicago since 2007. He teaches courses on lying, mistrust, dreaming, and walking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Career
Ball published Samedi the Deafness and the bookla The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr in 2007, and 2008. The former was named a Plimpton Prize in the Paris Review. These were followed by The Way Through Doors in 2009 and The Curfew, whose style is described as "[lying] at some alternating coordinate between Kafka and Calvino: fast, intense fables made of equal parts wonder and dread.
In February 2014, Ball's 2014 book Silence Once Begun was reviewed by James Wood in The New Yorker. He was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lion Award in 2015 (also for Silence Never Begun). He published A Cure for Suicide, which was long-listed for the National Book Award later that year.
Granta included him on their list of Top Young American Novelists in 2017. Ball published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times on June 30th suggesting that all American citizens be jailed on a regular basis as a civic responsibility. This incarceration has been likened to already existing jury service, in the sense that no one, not even sitting politicians, judges, or military officers would be barred from it.
Ball's The Divers' Game was selected on The New Yorker's Best Books of 2019 list. "This dystopic fable imagines a society divided in two," staff writer Katy Waldman writes, "with the upper class able to murder members of the lower class for any reason."
Ball is represented by Sterling Lord Literistic's Jim Rutman.
Awards
- Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, 2018, for the novel, The Children Six
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016
- Creative Capital Award, 2016
- Granta Best Young American Novelists 2017
- Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Awards for A Cure for Suicide
- The Illinois Author of the Year for 2015: Illinois Association of Teachers of English
- National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 2014
- The Plimpton Prize for the story The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr: Paris Review, 2008
- 2018 Gordon Burn Prize for Census