{{short description|American novelist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox writer <!--For more information, see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc.--> |name = Donald Antrim |image = |image_size = |caption = |alt = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}} |birth_place = Sarasota, Florida, U.S. |occupation = Professor |language = English |alma_mater = Brown University |genres = Novels, short stories, memoir |movement = Postmodernism |notableworks = ''Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World'' (1993)<br/>''The Verificationist'' (2000) |awards = MacArthur fellowship |years_active = 1993–present }} '''Donald Antrim''' (born 1958) is an American novelist. His first novel, ''Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World'', was published in 1993. In 1999, ''The New Yorker'' named him as among the 20 best writers under the age of 40.<ref>[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA166986.html 'New Yorker' Publishes 'Under 40' Fiction List - 6/14/1999 - ''Publishers Weekly''.<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 2013, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.<ref>[http://www.thealpenanews.com/page/content.detail/id/380506/List-of-2013--Genius-Grant--recipients.html?isap=1&nav=5012 List of 2013 'Genius Grant' recipients] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925175447/http://www.thealpenanews.com/page/content.detail/id/380506/List-of-2013--Genius-Grant--recipients.html?isap=1&nav=5012 |date=September 25, 2013 }}</ref>
==Life== Antrim was born in Sarasota, Florida.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHDzeGk07l0C&q=donald+antrim+%22Sarasota%22&pg=RA1-PT497|title=The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013|date=2013-09-10|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-345-80326-9}}</ref> After graduating from Woodberry Forest School in 1977, Antrim graduated from Brown University, taught prose fiction at the graduate school of New York University, and was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany in Spring 2009. Antrim teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty/donald-antrim |title=Donald Antrim | Columbia University School of the Arts |access-date=2014-10-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153022/http://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty/donald-antrim |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to ''The New Yorker'' and has written two other critically acclaimed novels, ''The Verificationist'' and ''The Hundred Brothers'', the latter of which was a finalist for the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Winners & Finalists|url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/|publisher=Pen/Faulkner Foundation|access-date=February 12, 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221031240/http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He is also the author of ''The Afterlife'', a 2006 memoir about his mother, Louanne Self.<ref>{{cite news|last=Scott|first=A.O.|title=Son & Survivor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/books/review/18scott.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=February 12, 2014|newspaper=New York Times Review of Books|date=June 18, 2006}}</ref> He has received grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2013, he received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Treisman|first=Rebecca|title=Congratulations, Donald Antrim|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/donald-antrim-macarthur-grant.html|access-date=February 12, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=September 25, 2013}}</ref>
===Family=== Antrim is the brother of artist Terry Leness and the son of Harry Antrim, a scholar of T. S. Eliot.
==Bibliography== {{Expand list|date=October 2017}}
===Novels=== * ''Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World'' (1993, {{ISBN|0-375-72503-2}}) * ''The Hundred Brothers'' (1998, {{ISBN|0-517-70310-6}}) * ''The Verificationist'' (2000, {{ISBN|0-679-76943-9}})
=== Short fiction === ;Collections *''The Emerald Light in the Air : Stories'' (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.) Collects seven stories originally published in the New Yorker between 1999 and 2014. ;Stories *"An Actor Prepares" (New Yorker, June 21, 1999) *"Pond, with Mud" (New Yorker, October 20, 2003) *"Solace" (New Yorker, April 4, 2005) *"Another Manhattan" (New Yorker, December 22, 2008) *"He Knew" (New Yorker, May 9, 2011) *"Ever Since" (New Yorker, March 12, 2012) *"The Emerald Light in the Air" (New Yorker, February 3, 2014) ;Stories excerpted from novels *"Y Chromosome" (New Yorker, November 18, 1996) (from ''The Hundred Brothers'') *"The Pancake Supper" (New Yorker, December 7, 1999) (from ''The Verificationist'')
===Non-fiction=== ;Books * ''The Afterlife: A Memoir'' (2006, {{ISBN|0-312-42635-6}}) * ''One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival'' (2021, {{ISBN|978-1324005568}}) ;Essays and reporting *Black Mountain 1977<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=Black Mountain, 1977|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2000/12/25/2000_12_25_089_TNY_LIBRY_000022395|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=February 18, 2014|date=December 25, 2000}}</ref> *I Bought A Bed<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=I Bought A Bed|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/06/17/020617fa_fact_antrim|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=June 17, 2002}}</ref> *A.K.A. Sam<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=AKA Sam|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/02/17/030217fa_fact_antrim|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=February 17, 2003}}</ref> *Ad Nauseam<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=Ad Nauseam|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/04/21/030421fa_fact7|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=April 21, 2003}}</ref> *Church<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=Church|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fa_fact_antrim|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=December 22, 2003}}</ref> *The Kimono<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=The Kimono|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/03/15/040315fa_fact_antrim|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=March 15, 2004}}</ref> *A Man in the Kitchen<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=A Man In The Kitchen|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_antrim|access-date=February 18, 2014|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=September 3, 2007}}</ref> *Fed<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=Fed|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/04/fed|access-date=August 24, 2019|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=November 4, 2013}}</ref> *The Unprotected Life<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=The Unprotected Life|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unprotected-life|access-date=August 24, 2019|newspaper=The New Yorker (Page Turner blog)|date=July 16, 2015}}</ref> *Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide<ref>{{cite news|last=Antrim|first=Donald|title=Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/everywhere-and-nowhere-a-journey-through-suicide|access-date=August 24, 2019|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
==See also== {{portal|Novels}} * Postmodern literature * Hysterical realism
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0200/antrim/interview.html Antrim interview] * [http://flakmag.com/features/dantrim.html Flak magazine interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124185434/http://flakmag.com/features/dantrim.html |date=November 24, 2010 }} * [http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/review1d.htm ''irreal (re)views'': Irrealism in the U.S.A. (includes review of ''The Hundred Brothers'')] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110216040644/http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/02/antrim/index.html Salon.com review of ''The Verificationist'']
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