Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain 's work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives in Dallas.
Ben Fountain 's work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives in Dallas. See less
Ben Fountain's Featured Books
Ben Fountain book reviews
-
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Bravo
Ben Fountain's 2012 novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" was an outstanding choice to read over this Memorial Day weekend, with its parades and commemorations of our country's many brave soldiers ... Read More
-
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
Great Read!
I bought this book after Malcolm Gladwell mentioned it in What the Dog Saw and I was not dissapointed after I read it. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a very enjoyable and quick read that shows ... Read More
-
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A brilliant talent.
Fountain's novel--the best, boots-on-the-ground portrait of contemporary American culture I have read in years--places the reader in the middle of a 20-car collision of hopes and habits and values, ... Read More
