Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus ( born October 11, 1967 in the U.S.) is an American author.

Life

Marcus grew up the son of a Jewish father and an Irish mother. He was annexed by his bar mitzvah in the Jewish faith community. Since the 1990s, he wrote and published, among others, in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Salon.com, Time Magazine and the web forum Conjunctions. He was for several years as co-editor responsible for the area of ​​fiction, the literary journal Fence of Albany in upstate New York.

Marcus is a professor at Columbia University in New York City. Here he lives. In the summer he went to Brooklin, Maine. His first novel, The Age of Wire and String in 1995 launched A. Knopf in New York City at Alfred, was the first time Ben Marcus the German public in 2012 with the translation of his novel The Flame Alphabet known to German flame alphabet.

Marcus received the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize in Fiction from the American Academy in Berlin and in autumn 2013, a Fellow of the Academy.

Publications

• The Age of Wire and String. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 1995, ISBN 0-679-42660-4.
• Notable American Women. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2002, ISBN 0-375-71378-6.
• The Flame Alphabet. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-37937-5. German by Thomas Melle: Flames Alphabet. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-40370-1.

• German by Thomas Melle and Gerhard Henschel: Move to country. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40336-7.

• The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. Anchor Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-400-03482-5.