ベン・ファウンテン（1958年–）は、アメリカの小説家、短編作家。ノースカロライナ州に生まれ、デューク大学法科大学院を修了後、弁護士として働いたのち創作に専念した。ハイチをはじめとする海外の政治的混乱と、そこに関わるアメリカ人を描いた短編集『Brief Encounters with Che Guevara』（未邦訳）でPEN／ヘミングウェイ賞を受賞。イラク戦争から一時帰国した兵士が、愛国的なショーに利用される一日を描いた『ビリー・リンの永遠の一日』（Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk）は、全米図書賞の最終候補となり、全米批評家協会賞を受賞した。同作はアン・リー監督によって映画化された。ハイチの政変を背景に、権力、暴力、外国からの介入を描いた長編『Devil Makes Three』（未邦訳）も発表している。
Ben Fountain (1958–) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Born in North Carolina, he graduated from Duke University School of Law and worked as an attorney before turning to writing full time. His story collection “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,” which portrays Americans caught up in political turmoil abroad, particularly in Haiti, received the PEN/Hemingway Award. “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” about an Iraq War soldier temporarily brought home and used in a patriotic spectacle, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a film directed by Ang Lee. Fountain also wrote “Devil Makes Three,” a novel examining power, violence, and foreign intervention against the background of political upheaval in Haiti.
