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Alum Selected as MacArthur Fellow
Donald Antrim ’77 was selected as a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, receiving the so-called "genius grant" in September. A 1981 graduate of Brown University, Donald is an associate professor in the Writing Program at Columbia University who has published three novels, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993), The Hundred Brothers (1998), and The Verificationist (2000). He also wrote Afterlife, a memoir about the life of his mother, Louanne Self, and has frequently published fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker.
Though Donald has earned critical acclaim and other awards for his creative work, including selection as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998, he says of his MacArthur grant: "For the first time, I felt an artisitic mandate, the mandate being simply to keep working." He is currently completing a new novel and a collection of short stories.
Image courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Though Donald has earned critical acclaim and other awards for his creative work, including selection as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998, he says of his MacArthur grant: "For the first time, I felt an artisitic mandate, the mandate being simply to keep working." He is currently completing a new novel and a collection of short stories.
Image courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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