Awards

• Commended for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (First Fiction) 2012
• Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (First Fiction) 2011
• Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2012
• Winner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Fiction) 2012

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That baseball rewards languid virtuosos and frothing monomaniacs about equally is one of the game's weird fascinations. That Academe does the same would not be useful information in the hands of a hack. But The Art of Fielding marries the national pastime to the life of the mind, takes off running, and never flags. Chad Harbach's pen shatters stereotypes like fastballs shatter bats. His sentence-making keeps things fluid and tense as a September pennant race. When the best shortstop alive sounds believably like a Tibetan lama, and when a thrown ball striking a shovel head at dusk leaves your own head ringing with certainty that truth and friendship have triumphed, you know you're in the hands of a writer you can trust. --David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and The River Why

Spectacular! The Art of Fielding is a wise, warm-hearted, self-assured, and fiercely readable debut, which heralds the coming of a young American writer to watch. Harbach's characters live and breathe, yearn, ache, and in the end, make you love them for their flaws. You won't want this book to end. --Jonathan Evison, author of All About Lulu and West of Here

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Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin, and graduated from Harvard in 1997. He was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he received an MFA in Fiction in 2004. He is currently a co-editor of n+1, which he cofounded, and lives in Virginia.

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