Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Joyce Carol Oates Prize | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Ben Fountain's novel follows an American couple on vacation in Haiti who are taken hostage, drawing on the author's years of research in that country. Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.
About the Author
Ben Fountain is an American fiction writer whose debut novel became one of the most celebrated literary debuts of the twenty-first century. Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he practiced law briefly before turning to fiction writing. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012), his debut novel, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Read more →
