Ben Fountain is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. He has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Writers' Award, among other honors and awards. He and his family live in Dallas.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Dallas, Texas
- Place of Birth:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Education:
- B.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980; J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1983