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Ben Dolnick is an American fiction writer and author of the novels Zoology, You Know Who You Are, and At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel.

Background

Ben Dolnick was born and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is the son of Lynn Iphigene (nee Golden) and Edward Dolnick. And a nephew of Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha.

Education

Columbia University.

Career

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 New York

Membership

Through his mother"s side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times.