Ben Dolnick

Ben Dolnick
Dolnick at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Dolnick at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born1982 (age 42–43)
Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University
GenreNovels
RelativesArthur Hays Sulzberger (great-grandfather)
Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (great-grandmother)
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (grandmother)
Lynn Golden Dolnick (mother)
Edward Dolnick (father)
Arthur Golden (uncle)
Sam Dolnick (brother)
Dave Golden (cousin)

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. Through his mother's side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times.[1][2] He attended Georgetown Day School and went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and has worked as a "zookeeper" at the Central Park Zoo. 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.
  • The Ghost Notebooks, 2018

References

  1. ^ Dolnick, Edward (September 2, 2008). "Fish or Foul?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  2. ^ New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan" retrieved September 27, 2015