Ben Dolnick

Ben Dolnick
Dolnick at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
Born	1982 (age 34–35) 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).

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.