I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

Henry Award[citation needed]
2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara[citation needed]
2007 Whiting Writers Award
2012 National Book Award (fiction) finalist Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year shortlist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Good Reads Choice Awards 2012 Best Fiction finalist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012 (fiction) finalist Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk


Bibliography
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983. S.

Ben Fountain (b. He was won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk.