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Chad Harbach (born 1975) is an American writer. An editor at the journal ''
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'', he is the author of the 2011 novel ''
The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...
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Early life and education

Harbach grew up in
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. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a
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school. Harbach graduated from
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, where he befriended fellow writers and journalists
Keith Gessen Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, and literary translator. He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine '' n+1'' and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia Unive ...
and
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. He received an MFA from the
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in 2004.


''n + 1''

In 2004,
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, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal ''
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''; Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998. Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on
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, and the
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.


''The Art of Fielding''

Harbach worked on his novel ''
The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...
'' for nine years. The novel, set at Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, tells the story of the gifted young shortstop Henry Skrimshander, whose errant throw upends the lives of five people. In high school, Harbach had played baseball, along with golf and basketball; in March 2010, he told
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, "What fascinates me about baseball is that although it's a team game, and a team becomes a kind of family, the players on the field are each very much alone. Your teammates depend on you and support you, but at the moments that count they can't bail you out." After a heated auction ($665,000), the book was acquired and published by
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in the fall of 2011. A ''Vanity Fair'' e-book describing the writing and publication of the novel was later released.
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was met with extraordinary critical praise. In ''
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'',
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wrote, "'
The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...
' is not only a wonderful baseball novel—it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics, alongside ''
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'' by
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and ''
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'' by Mark Harris—but it's also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and coming of age that marks the debut of an immensely talented writer."


''MFA vs NYC''

Harbach edited a book about two American writing cultures, released in February 2014. The book was based on Harbach's widely read essay "MFA vs NYC," and featured essays by n+1 contributors such as Elif Batuman and Keith Gessen, as well as the novelist George Saunders. The Times's Dwight Garner described it as a "serious, helpful and wily book."


Awards and recognition

*2011 ''
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'' named on ''
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'' Best Books of 2011 list *2011 ''
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'' named
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's Best Book of the Year *2012 Bottari Lattes Grinzane nominee for ''
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'' *2012 Friends of American Writers Book of the Year for ''
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'' *2012
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nominee for ''
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'' *2012
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longlist for ''
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'' *2012 Library of Virginia Literary Award nominee for ''
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'' *2012
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nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for ''
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'' *2012 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for ''
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'' *2012 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award nominee for ''
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'' *2012 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for ''
The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...
''


Controversy

In September, 2017, writer Charles C. Green sued Chad Harbach claiming "large-scale misappropriation" by Harbach. The suit noted a very strong plot and style resemblance between ''
The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...
'' and Green's previously completed screenplay, ''Bucky's 9th''. Green claimed Harbach had somehow seen an unpublished version of his manuscript. In July, 2018, Green's suit was dismissed, though he claimed he intends to appeal.


References


External links


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