Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus (Author) (born 1967) is the author of four books of fiction. His new novel, The Flame Alphabet, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in January 2012. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions.

Marcus is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and for several years he was the fiction editor of Fence. He is a 2009 recipient of a grant for Innovative Literature from the Creative Capital Foundation. In 2008 he received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has also received a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. Marcus is an associate professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

Books

Novels

• The Age of Wire and String (1995)
• Notable American Women (2002)
• The Flame Alphabet (2012)

Other works

• The Father Costume (2002) novella with art by Matthew Ritchie
• The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004), editor
• The Moors (2010)

Life

• Associate Professor at Columbia University
• Marcus lives in New York City and Brooklin, Maine

Essays

• Dr. Seuss
• Thomas Bernhard
• The Lyric Essay
• Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction portion of an article published in Harper's Magazine in response to an essay by Mr. Franzen

Short Fiction

• Web del Sol features some excerpts from The Age of Wire and String
• The Believer A short story written as a review of a woodworking tool.

External links

• Official website
• Powell's Books interview with Ben Marcus
• Electronic Book Review reviews Notable American Women