Antrim was born in
Sarasota, Florida. After graduating from
Woodberry Forest School in 1977, Antrim graduated from
Brown University, taught prose fiction at the graduate school of
New York University, and was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at the
American Academy in Berlin, Germany in Spring 2009. Antrim teaches in the MFA program at
Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn. Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to
The New Yorker and has written two other critically acclaimed novels,
The Verificationist and
The Hundred Brothers, the latter of which was a finalist for the 1998
PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction. He is also the author of
The Afterlife, a 2006
memoir about his mother, Louanne Self. He has received grants and awards from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the
New York Public Library. In 2013, he received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
Family Antrim is the brother of artist Terry Leness and the son of Harry Antrim, a scholar of
T. S. Eliot. ==Bibliography==