# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-fountain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:39.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-fountain"
name: "Ben Fountain"
slug: "ben-fountain"
description: "Ben Fountain is an American writer currently living in New Bern, North Carolina. 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)."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_fountain_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             19.49915110356537
  historical:           8.764077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1697731/"
    handle:    "nm1697731"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بن فاونتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بين فاونتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Fountain"
    title: "Ben Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Fountain"
    title: "Ben Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Fountain"
    title: "Ben Fountain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ベン・ファウンテン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фонтейн, Бен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1458002"
    title: "Ben Fountain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump