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Benjamin Taylor is the author of the novel The Book of Getting Even, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award Finalist, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year, and Ferro-Grumley Prize Finalist. He has published a book-length essay, Into the Open. His novel Tales Out of School, winner of the 1996 Harold Ribalow Prize, has recently been reissued. In the autumn of 2010 Penguin will publish The Letters of Saul Bellow, edited by Taylor. Also scheduled for next year is Mondadori’s Spanish edition of The Book of Getting Even. Naples Declared, Taylor’s travel memoir, will appear in the spring of 2011. Taylor is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia University where he earned the doctorate in English and comparative literature. He has contributed to magazines including Bookforum, BOMB, The Los Angeles Times, The New Leader, The Georgia Review, Raritan, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Provincetown Arts, and others. A founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty at The New School, and teaches also in the MFA program of the Columbia University School of the Arts. He has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and Bennington College.

May 2009

A special note: the ESU would like to recognize the late George Plimpton for his service and contributions to the Ambassador Book Awards Committee, where he served six years as its Chairman.

 

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