Ben Fountain (b. Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He was won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk.
Read more about Ben Fountain: Pre-writing Career, Writing Career, Awards and Honors, Bibliography
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