Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. 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).
Books in order of publication:
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (Ecco, 2006
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, 2012)
Beautiful Country Burn Again (Ecco, 2018)
Devil Makes Three (Flatiron, 2023)
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