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Ben Fountain was born on 1958 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., is an American fiction writer. Discover Ben Fountain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
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United States
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Ben Fountain Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Ben Fountain's Wife?
His wife is Sharon Monahan (m. 1985)
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Sharon Monahan (m. 1985) |
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Ben Fountain Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ben Fountain worth at the age of 66 years old? Ben Fountain’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Ben Fountain's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American writer currently living in Dallas, Texas.
Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a J.D. degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983.
Fountain married Sharon (née Monahan), an attorney, in 1985; they met when both were students at Duke University School of Law.
After a brief stint practicing real estate law at Akin Gump in Dallas, Fountain quit law in 1988 to become a full-time fiction writer.
While collecting articles about things he was interested in, Fountain was riveted by Haiti, regarding it "like a laboratory, almost ... Everything that’s gone on in the last five hundred years—colonialism, race, power, politics, ecological disasters — it’s all there in very concentrated form. And also I just felt, viscerally, pretty comfortable there."
Speaking little French, let alone Haitian Creole, he went for his first trip abroad there in 1991 and at least thirty more times.
From this came four of the best regarded stories in his 2006 breakthrough collection of short stories: Brief Encounters With Che Guevara when Fountain was forty-eight.
He has won numerous awards and inclusion of his work in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2006).
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).
Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
He grew up in Elizabeth City, a tobacco town in eastern North Carolina.
His family moved to Cary, near Raleigh, when he was 13.
Fountain's debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, was released in early May 2012.
Ang Lee directed a film adaptation, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which began filming in 2015 and was released in November 2016.
