Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus (Author) (born 1967) is the author of four books of fiction. His new novel, The Flame Alphabet, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in January 2012. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions. Marcus is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and for several years he was the fiction editor of Fence. He is a 2009 recipient of a grant for Innovative Literature from the Creative Capital Foundation. In 2008 he received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has also received a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts...