Ben Fountain (b. Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk.
Wrote "Brief encounters with Che Guevara" after developing a fascination with Haiti.
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His first short story was 60 pages long and took 3 months to write.
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Graduated from Duke University school of Law.
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When he started writing, he got up each morning at 7:30 and wrote until lunchtime. He would then rest for twenty minutes before writing again for a few hours.
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Lives in Dallas, Texas.
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Started writing when he was 30 years old.
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Was a Lawyer before quitting to become a writer.
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His rise to literary success was documented by Malcolm Gladwell in a study of career late bloomers.
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