Ben Fountain

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<p>Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of <em>Brief Encounters with Che Guevara</em>, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel <em>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk</em>, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. <em>Billy Lynn </em>was adapted into a feature film directed by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages. His series of essays published in <em>The Guardian</em> on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of <em>The Guardian </em>for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife of 32 years, Sharon Fountain.</p>