Ben schrank biography

SIDELIGHTS: Journalist and author Ben Schrank, who also writes children's books under the name J. Minter, grew up in New York City and attended Brown University.
Ben Schrank has been a furniture mover, a teacher, and a bike messenger.
Ben Schrank biography: Ben Schrank published his first novel, Miracle Man, in 1999.

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Ben Schrank, author of Love Is A Canoe, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

The Booktopia Book Guru asks

author of Love Is A Canoe

Ten Terrifying Questions

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1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled?

I was born in New Haven, but I was raised in what is called ‘Brownstone Brooklyn’ and after brief periods away for college in New England and some time writing for money in Los Angeles, I returned to Brooklyn and now live within half a mile of where I grew up.

2. What did you want to be when you were twelve, eighteen and thirty? And why?

At twelve I thought I’d be a fashion model but then a family friend sought me out at a party and gently told me I was an inch too short and far too pimply.

At eighteen I imagined I’d be a school teacher who wrote short stories in the evenings. Sometime after that I became more ambitious.

So, by the time I was thirty I knew I was a writer but was still young and dumb enough to deny to mys

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Ben Schrank Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Ben Schrank Biography

Ben Schrank published his first novel, Miracle Man, in 1999. The New Yorker selected it as one of six debut novels in that year's fiction issue, saying "As the ethical lines blur, Schrank makes New York seem sharp and new." Time Magazine called it a "brilliantly observed story about the desire to live in an egalitarian world." In 2002 Schrank published his second novel, Consent. Leonard Michaels wrote of Consent: "It is a very serious story, and, in places, it is hilarious. As for the woman at the center, she is unforgettable." Schrank has taught at the MFA program at Brooklyn college. He was for some years the voice of Ben's Life, a fictional column for Seventeen magazine. He is currently publisher of Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He grew up in Brooklyn where he now lives with his wife, Lauren Mechling, and son.

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Schrank, Ben

(J. Minter)

PERSONAL: Born in Brooklyn, NY. Education: Attended Brown University; M.F.A. study at New York University.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Richard Abate, ICM, 40 W. 57th St. New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Novelist and journalist. Editorial director for Alloy Entertainment (creative think tank). Worked as a columnist for Seventeen magazine.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellowships at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony.

WRITINGS:

FOR CHILDREN; "INSIDER'S" SERIES; UNDER PSEUDONYM J. MINTER

The Insiders, Bloomsbury Children's Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Pass It On, Bloomsbury Children's Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Take It Off, Bloomsbury Children's Books (New York, NY), 2005.

FICTION

Miracle Man, Quill (New York, NY), 1999.

Consent, Random House (New York, NY), 2002.

(Editor) Love Is the Only Story: Tales of Romance, Lyons Press (Guilford, CT), 2003.

Contributor of fiction to anthologies, including KGB Bar Reader, Quill/Morrow (New York, NY), 1999; Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Perenn