Nationality American Role Author | Name Ben Marcus Genre Short Story, Novel Parents Jane Marcus | |
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Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea: Stories, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Father Costume Similar People Heidi Julavits, Jane Marcus, George Saunders, Gary Lutz, Sam Lipsyte | ||
Lydia davis with ben marcus 16 may 2012
Ben Marcus (born 1967) is the author of four books of fiction. His latest book, Leaving the Sea: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in January 2014.
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- Lydia davis with ben marcus 16 may 2012
- Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet
- Life
- Influences
- Awards and honours
- Novels
- Other works
- Essays
- Short fiction
- References
His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions. He is also the fiction editor of The American Reader.
Ben Marcus - The Flame Alphabet
Life
Marcus grew up in Austin, the son of a retired mathematician and the literary critic and Virginia Woolf scholar Jane Marcus. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from New York University and an MFA from Brown University. His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah.
Marcus is a Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and he lives in New York City. He is married to the writer Heidi Julavits. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor at The American Reader. For several years he was the fiction editor of Fence.
Influences
Marcus' influences include Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Donald Barthelme, Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Bernhard, Padgett Powell, J. M. Coetzee, Kōbō Abe, Gary Lutz, and George Saunders.