Donald Antrim is the author of a memoir, The Afterlife, and three novels: Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist. He is a contributor to The New Yorker and the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2009.
At MacDowell, Antrim has worked on his fourth novel, a book about the life of his mother (sections of which have appeared in The New Yorker), and in 2025, he worked on a novel tentatively titled Must I Read All of Wittgenstine?.
