Ben Dolnick
| Ben Dolnick | |
|---|---|
 Dolnick at the 2013 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born |
1982 (age 33–34) Chevy Chase, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Genre | Novels |
| Relatives |
Lynn Golden Dolnick Edward Dolnick (parents) Arthur Golden (uncle) Arthur Hays Sulzberger (great-grandfather) |
Ben Dolnick (born 1982) is an American fiction writer and author of the novels Zoology (2007), You Know Who You Are (2011), and At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel (2013).
Life
Ben Dolnick was born and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is the son of Lynn Iphigene (née Golden) and Edward Dolnick; and a nephew of Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha.[1] Through his mother's side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times.[2][3] He attended Georgetown Day School and went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and according to the Vintage Random House website has worked as a "zookeeper at the Central Park Zoo, a bookseller, a research assistant in an immunology lab, and a tutor."
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Works
- Zoology. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-38654-0.
- You Know Who You Are. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. ISBN 978-0-307-74200-1.
- At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-90799-8.
References
- ↑ "Times Has a Zoo of a Conflict". PageSix.com. New York Post. June 29, 2007. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- ↑ Dolnick, Edward (September 2, 2008). "Fish or Foul?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- ↑ New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan" retrieved September 27, 2015