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Ben Fountain
Books and Reading in the Information Age Ben Fountain is the author of the short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2006), which received the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first book of fiction by an American author, the 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a 2007 Whiting Writer's Award. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope:All-Story, among other magazines, and have received an O.Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Awards, and the McGinnis-Ritchie Prize for Fiction. He is a former practicing attorney and has served as fiction editor of the Southwest Review and as president of WordSpace, a nonprofit literary organization in Dallas. His novel The Texas Itch will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2009.
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