Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain (b. Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas.
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[edit] Pre-writing career
Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1984.[1] After a brief stint practicing real estate law at Akin Gump in Dallas, Fountain in 1988 quit the law to become a full time fiction writer.[2]
[edit] Writing career
He is the author of Brief Encounters With Che Guevara, a collection of short stories. He has won numerous awards, including the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for 2002 and 2004, a Pushcart Prize in 2004, an O. Henry Award in 2005 and 2007, and inclusion of his work in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2006. In 2007 he won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, a prestigious award for emerging writers, from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.[3] [4] [5]
A novel, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," is scheduled for release in early May 2012.[4][5]
[edit] Bibliography
- Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
- New Stories from the South: The Year's Best
[edit] References
- ^ "Ben Fountain," Barnes & Noble biography
- ^ http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html "Late Bloomers," Malcolm Gladwell, October 20, 2008
- ^ Merschel, Michael (October 25, 2007). "Dallas Author Ben Fountain Wins Whiting Award". Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-fountain_1025gl.ART.State.Edition1.422b88c.html.
- ^ a b "Ben Fountain interview". Texas Monthly. February 2008. http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/feature15.php.
- ^ a b "Ask the Author". D Magazine. February 2010. http://readingroom.dmagazine.com/2010/02/09/ask-the-author-ben-fountain-will-take-your-questions-now/.
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