Taylor Antrim
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Taylor Antrim is a writer and editor best known for his debut novel The Headmaster Ritual. Antrim is a graduate of Stanford University
Stanford University
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, and received his MFA from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
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. His journalism and reviews have appeared in Esquire
Esquire (magazine)
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, The Village Voice
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, and The New York Times
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. He is currently fiction critic at The Daily Beast, Senior Editor at Architectural Digest, and he lives in Brooklyn
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, New York
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The Headmaster Ritual was published in 2007 by Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
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. 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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