Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain | |
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Fountain at the 2018 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1958 (age 66–67) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Duke University School of Law (JD) |
| Spouse |
Sharon Monahan (m. 1985) |
Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in New Bern, North Carolina. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012).