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Donald Antrim

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January 01, 1958 in Miami, The United States

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Donald Antrim is an American novelist. His first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, was published in 1993. In 1999 The New Yorker named him as among the twenty best writers under the age of forty.

Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to The New Yorker and has written a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Verificationist and The Hundred Brothers, 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 Li...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 1,642 ratings · 185 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Hundred Brothers 3.56 avg rating — 294 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Verificationist: A Novel 3.41 avg rating — 301 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A novel 3.80 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Afterlife 3.39 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights by Donald Antrim, Doug Dubois (Photographer) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Il verificazionista 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Mutter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme, Donald Antrim (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1975 — 17 editions	My rating:

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“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.”
― Donald Antrim, The Verificationist: A Novel

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“The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?”
― Donald Antrim

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“Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.”
― Donald Antrim, The Verificationist: A Novel

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