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Ben Fountain


About

Ben Fountain’s most recent book is Beautiful Country Burn Again, which won the Texas Institute of Letters’ Carr P. Collins Award for nonfiction. His work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and his debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He grew up in North Carolina and has lived in Texas the past thirty years.

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