Taylor Antrim

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Taylor Antrim
Born 1974
Occupation Novelist, Journalist
Nationality United States
Genres Fiction

Taylor Antrim (born 1974) is a writer and editor best known for his debut novel The Headmaster Ritual. Antrim is a graduate of Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Virginia. His journalism and reviews have appeared in Esquire, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. He is currently an editor at ForbesLife and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Headmaster Ritual was published in 2007 by Houghton Mifflin. Set at "the Britton School ... the oldest, most selective prep school in the country," it tells the parallel stories of Dyer Martin, a new teacher at Britton, and James Wolfe, a senior and the son of the school's maniacal headmaster.


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Houghton Mifflin Author Page
Review of The Headmaster Ritual in the Richmond Times Dispatch
Review of The Headmaster Ritual in the San Francisco Chronicle