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. 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. Harbach worked on his novel The Art of Fielding for nine years. Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on environmentalism, David Foster Wallace, and the Boston Red Sox. In 2004, Mark Greif, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal n + 1 Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2004. Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he befriended fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. Chad Harbach at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.Ĭhad Harbach (born 1975 ) is an American writer.
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