Ben Fountain

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Duke University School of Law (JD) |spouse= }} Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in New Bern, North Carolina. 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). Provided by Wikipedia