Nationality American Name Ben Dolnick | Parents Edward Dolnick | |
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Books At the Bottom of Everythin, Zoology, You Know Who You Are | ||
Author Ben Dolnick 2018-02-11 TWIG
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).
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Book review: The Ghost Notebooks by Ben Dolnick
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. Through his mother's side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times. 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.