B. Alexandra Szerlip is an author who has been a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow, runner-up for London's Lothian Prize for a first biography-in-progress (the first American finalist in the Lothian's then-eleven-year history), and a recent Yaddo and US Artists fellow. A chapter from her manuscript of The Man Who Designed the Future appeared in The Paris Review and another chapter in McSweeney's, which was translated into French and was nominated for inclusion in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best Essays of 2012.
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