Jesse Ball was born in New York.
He was named one of Granta \'s Best of Young Novelists, and has been a fellow of the NEA, Creative Capital, and the Guggenheim Foundation..
He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has won the Paris Review\'s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and was long-listed for the National Book Award.
He is the author of sixteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Jesse Ball was born in New York