Ben Lerner Biography and Wiki
Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic best known for winning the Guggenheim Fellowship; the Believer Book Award; the MacArthur Fellowship, and as the author of Topeka school and Leaving Atocha station among many more books.
Ben won the “Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie” award in 2011 and became the first American to receive the honor. He is also an English teacher at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.