![]() ![]() ![]() He teaches English at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn. In 2015, he was also awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant. In 2011, he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie for the German translation of The Lichtenberg Figures. Lerner is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. He is also the author of the 10:04 (Faber & Faber, 2014) and Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011). 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), winner of the 2003 Hayden Carruth Award. He received a BA in political theory and an MFA in poetry from Brown University. ![]() He feels that the Adam Gordon that appears in Leaving the Atocha Station gives more context as to what his relationship with both of his parents is. With James Naughtie and a group of readers. Ben feels that Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School form a trilogy, although he doesn’t think that is the only way to read it. Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, on February 4, 1979. Ben Lerner on his novel Leaving the Atocha Station about a young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid. ![]()
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