Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner was born in Kansas in 1979. He is a poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He was a finalist for the National Book Award and the first American writer to win the Münster Prize for International Poetry. His first novel, Leaving Atocha Station, was unanimously acclaimed by critics, awarded the Believer Book Award, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the debut novel category and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. 10:04 This is his second novel and was a finalist for the Folio Prize. Ben Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.