Kunkel grew up in Eagle, Colorado, and was educated at Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Kunkel studied at Deep Springs College in California, graduated with an Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, and received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Columbia University.
Harvard University; Deep Springs College. Columbia University School of the Arts.
He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His novel,, was published in 2005. In addition to regularly writing for The New York Times, Kunkel has written for the magazines Dissent, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Believer, and The New Yorker.
Was published by Random House in 2005. begins with the acknowledgment, "Foreign n+1." Kunkel has written two short stories and one book review for the print journal he started with friends from college and graduate school.
In the Fall 2004 issue, he published the short story "Horse Mountain," about an aging manitoba In the Spring 2005 issue, he published a review of J.M. Coetzee"s works, imitating Coetzee"s recent novel Elizabeth Costello.
In the Fall 2005 issue, he published a short story "Or Things I Did Not Do or Say," about a man determined to kill another manitoba Archives of his articles for other magazines
Archive of Kunkel"s writings for The Nation (1999–2005).
Archive of Kunkel"s writings for The Believer (2003).
Reviews
"The Ideal Husband" – A review of Doctorate. H. Lawrence"s The Lost Girl. Published in the New York Review of Books (February 24, 2005). "The Unreal World" – A review of Don DeLillo"s The Body Artist, The Village Voice (February 14–20, 2001).
"The Sea of Love" – A review of Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson, in The New York Times (May 1, 2005)
Interviews and reading
"Benjamin Kunkel"s Tale of " – Kunkel reads from his novel on National Public Radio, (September 17, 2005).
"Attack of the listless lads" – Half-flippant, half-serious conversation with Kunkel about dating, relationships, and more theoretical gender relations in Salon, (September 20, 2005).
"Welcome to the political world" – Interview with Benjamin Kunkel in The Observer, (November 20, 2005).
