Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain
Fountain at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
Born	1958 (age 65–66) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Education	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Duke University School of Law (JD)
Spouse	Sharon Monahan ​ (m. 1985)​

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).