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Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) [1] is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...
Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, writer and editor Ben Lerner earned a BA in political science and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. He has served as a Fulbright scholar in Madrid and as a Guggenheim fellow. In 2015 he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur fellowship.
Sep 19, 2023 · After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.”
Jan 31, 2024 · Who is Ben Lerner? Readers of his fiction will be able to supply some answers: an intellectual and a museumgoer, a Midwesterner turned Brooklyn-dwelling dad, someone deeply interested in the...
Ben Lerner - Lerner is the author of three poetry collections: Mean Free Path (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), and The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), as well as two highly acclaimed novels.
Oct 8, 2019 · How Ben Lerner reinvented the social novel for a hyper-self-obsessed age. By GILES HARVEY OCT. 8, 2019. O ne evening in the mid-1980s, when he was 6 or 7, Ben Lerner appeared in...
Sep 11, 2023 · Lerner, a poet who has found a second life as a novelist, has been attempting versions of that book for nearly twenty years.
Sep 7, 2023 · How Ben Lerner’s writing shatters space, time and literary borders. Acclaimed novelist and poet Ben Lerner’s latest book is “The Lights: Poems.”. (Beowulf Sheehan) By David L. Ulin. Sept...
Jun 30, 2016 · In his new book, The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner argues that a disdain for poetry is inextricable from the art form itself. Earlier this month, Michael Clune spoke to Lerner at Greenlight Books , in Brooklyn.
Feb 4, 1979 · Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry.
