Ben fountain author biography sample

American fiction writer

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 novelBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012).

Early life

Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He grew up in Elizabeth City, a tobacco town in eastern North Carolina. His family moved to Cary, near Raleigh, when he was 13. Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a J.D. degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983.^[1] After a brief stint practicing real estate law at Akin Gump in Dallas, Fountain quit law in 1988 to become a full-time fiction writer.^[2]

Writing career

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