Ben Shattuck was born on 1984 and is an American writer, painter, and curator.
10 Facts About Ben Shattuck
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Ben Shattuck's parents, who met in New York, both work in the arts in Massachusetts; his mother, Dedee, owns an art gallery, while his father, Bill, is a painter.
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Ben Shattuck attended Deerfield Academy for high school, Cornell University for college, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop for his Master's of Fine Arts in fiction.
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Ben Shattuck taught fiction writing while at the University of Iowa as a graduate teaching assistant, and then at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Ben Shattuck continues to paint, exhibiting in galleries including the Sloane Merrill Gallery in Boston and the Greylock Gallery in Willamstown.
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Ben Shattuck has a brother named Will and in 2021, they bought the general store in their hometown, Davolls General Store, which was originally built in 1793.
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Short stories and essays by Ben Shattuck have been published in The Rumpus, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Salon.
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Ben Shattuck's essay "There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket" was Literary Hub's fifth most read story in 2015.
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In 2019, Ben Shattuck lived with girlfriend Jenny Slate in Massachusetts, where she was born and raised.
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Ben Shattuck knows how to play the banjo, and he goes birdwatching.