Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a YouTube sensation. Tonight, with
the nation's eyes on him, Billy steps out onto the field at the Dallas Cowboys'
Thanksgiving football game. Tomorrow, he must go back to war.
Author Biography
Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief
Encounters with Che Guevara and a debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,
which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the
2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan
First Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. In
addition, he has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble
Discover Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart Prizes. He was
also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. His
fiction has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story
and Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and his non-fiction has appeared
in The New York Times among other publications. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
