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Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) 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 ...
Lerner is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including No Art (2016); Mean Free Path (2010); Angle of Yaw (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award; and the sonnet sequence The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), which won the Hayden Carruth Award, was chosen by Library Journal as ...
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 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.
Sep 11, 2023 · In “The Lights,” Lerner has returned to that dream: “A dream in prose of poetry, a long dream of waking.” Like much of Lerner’s work, the book is full of uneasy divisions.
Sep 19, 2023 · Ben Lerner, a Poet/Novelist, Builds a Dream House of Words. After receiving plaudits for his recent novels, Lerner returns to verse with an expansive new collection, “The Lights.” Share full...
Jul 14, 2016 · A MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, and educated at Brown University. He is currently the poetry editor at Harper’s and contributes fiction and essays to The New Yorker and The Paris Review.
