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Donald Antrim ’77 Visits Forest
MacArthur Fellow Donald Antrim ’77 visited Woodberry Forest School April 29 - May 1, 2014, to lead a group of eleven students in a writing workshop. Each young writer shared a short story or memoir and received feedback from their peers and from Donald himself during the three-night session. “I do exactly the same thing with my graduate students,” said Donald, an associate professor at Columbia University.
The Brown University graduate and writer of three novels and a memoir, Donald also frequently publishes fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker. Ted Blain, Woodberry’s English department chair, and John Reimers, Donald’s Woodberry adviser, invited him to visit Woodberry.
“It’s been an enormous privilege to be here,” Donald said, “I never imagined I’d be staying in what used to be the headmaster’s house and teaching in Anderson Hall.”
Donald was selected by the MacArthur Foundation to receive its “genius grant” in 2013. News of the award “came out of the blue,” via a telephone call he received while riding over the Manhattan Bridge in a taxicab. “It hasn’t changed anything on the surface,” he said. “I’m not doing anything differently, but the grant has given me a calm and a mandate to keep working.” He compares the mission of the MacArthur Foundation to aspects of Woodberry’s purpose: “Both take care of people so they can rise to a challenge and make a better world.”
Read more on the Woodberry Forest School website at Alum Selected as MacArthur Fellow.
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The Brown University graduate and writer of three novels and a memoir, Donald also frequently publishes fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker. Ted Blain, Woodberry’s English department chair, and John Reimers, Donald’s Woodberry adviser, invited him to visit Woodberry.
“It’s been an enormous privilege to be here,” Donald said, “I never imagined I’d be staying in what used to be the headmaster’s house and teaching in Anderson Hall.”
Donald was selected by the MacArthur Foundation to receive its “genius grant” in 2013. News of the award “came out of the blue,” via a telephone call he received while riding over the Manhattan Bridge in a taxicab. “It hasn’t changed anything on the surface,” he said. “I’m not doing anything differently, but the grant has given me a calm and a mandate to keep working.” He compares the mission of the MacArthur Foundation to aspects of Woodberry’s purpose: “Both take care of people so they can rise to a challenge and make a better world.”
Read more on the Woodberry Forest School website at Alum Selected as MacArthur Fellow.
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