Background
Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school.
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Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he became friendly with fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. He received an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Virginia.
Career
An editor at the journal, he is the author of the 2011 novel
In 2004, Mark Greif, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal. Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998. Harbach worked on his baseball novel,, for nine years.
In high school, Harbach had played baseball, along with golf and basketball.
In March 2010, he told Bloomberg News, “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 Little, Brown in the fall of 2011.
A Vanity Fair e-book describing the writing and publication of the novel was later released. Harbach edited a book about two American writing cultures, the Master of Fine Arts and New York City, released in February 2014.
Achievements
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2011 named on New York Times "Best Books of 2011" list 2012 Hemingway Foundation/Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Award honorable mention for 2012 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist for 2012 The Guardian First Book Award shortlist foreign
Politics
Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on environmentalism, David Foster Wallace, and the Boston Red Sox.
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Awards
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2011 named on New York Times 'Best Books of 2011' list 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award honorable mention for 2012 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist for 2012 The Guardian First Book Award shortlist for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.; The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2011 named on New York Times 'Best Books of 2011' list 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award honorable mention for 2012 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist for 2012 The Guardian First Book Award shortlist for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.; The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.