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Winters was born in Maryland. In high school, he played in the punk band Corm,^[2] alongside John Davis, now of Title Tracks. In 1998, he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was active in the comedy group Mama's Pot Roast.^[3]

Career

Winters was first known as the author of the 2009 New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. In June 2010, Android Karenina was published by Quirk Books. A young adult novel, The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, was published by HarperCollins in September 2010. Finkleman was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in January 2011. In 2011, Winters published a second book in the Ms. Finkleman series, titled The Mystery of the Missing Everything, and Bedbugs, a horror novel for adults. Winters has also written numerous books in the Worst-Case Scenario Series.

In 2012, Winters published The Last Policeman, the first in a trilogy of detective novels set in a pre-apocalyptic United States; that book won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category Best Paperback Original;^[4] was an Amazon Best Book of 2012;^[5] and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery by Mystery Readers International.^[6] The second novel in the Last Policeman trilogy, Countdown City, was published in July 2013; it won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction.^[7] The third book in the Policeman series, World of Trouble, was published in July 2014. It was nominated for the Edgar Award in the category of Best Paperback Original ^[8] and for the Anthony Award.^[9]

Winters's work for the theater includes the Off-Broadway musical Slut, the children's musicals The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Uncle Pirate, and A (Tooth) Fairy Tale and the Neil Sedaka juke-box musical, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.

Winters's novel Underground Airlines was published by Mulholland Books in July 2016. It is an alternate history book, set in a present-day alternate universe in which the American Civil War never occurred, with human chattel slavery continuing to be practiced legally in four U.S. states as a result. In the book, the main character, a former slave and bounty hunter working for the U.S. government, attempts to infiltrate an abolitionist organization known as the "Underground Airlines" (a reference to the historical Underground Railroad).^[10]^[11] The book was an Indie Next pick for July 2016 and a New York Times bestseller.^[12]^[13] The book won the 2016 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

His most recent novel is Golden State, published by Mulholland Books in January 2019. The novel imagines an alternate history version of Southern California in which objective reality is fetishized and protected above all things, and lying is the greatest crime imaginable. Winters has said the book was inspired by the rise of alternative facts and in particular by the argument about the crowd size at the 2017 presidential inauguration.^[14]. Golden State was an Indie Next pick for January 2019 ^[15] and a Book of the Month Club selection ^[16]. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Berry called the novel "smart, intricate and propulsive" and "proof that Winters deserves our continued attention as one of crime fiction’s most inventive practitioners."^[17]

Personal life

Bibliography

Fiction

Poetry

Plays

Recognition

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=36603|title=About the Author|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|accessdate=24 August 2010}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mybookishways.com/2012/07/interview-giveaway-ben-h-winters-author-of-the-last-policeman.html|title=Interview (& Giveaway): Ben H. Winters, author of The Last Policeman|website=My Bookish Ways|accessdate=22 September 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Jennifer|title=Ben H. Winters Pens Highly Imaginative "Countdown City"|url=http://www.westendword.com/Articles-Books-c-2013-07-16-187697.114137-Ben-H-Winters-Pens-Highly-Imaginative-Countdown-City.html#axzz3E0VNDGRL|website=West End Word|accessdate=22 September 2014}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html|title=Edgar Winners & Nominees|website=www.theedgars.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Best-Books-Of-The-Year/b?ie=UTF8&node=5916596011|title=Amazon.com: Back to School: Books|website=www.amazon.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
6. ^http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/04/winner-2014-philip-k-dick-award/ |title=WINNER: 2014 Philip K. Dick Award |publisher=SF Signal |author=John DeNardo |date=April 19, 2014 |accessdate=April 21, 2014}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html|title=Edgar Winners & Nominees|website=www.theedgars.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Award Nominees and Winners |website=www.bouchercon.info |access-date=2016-07-05 |df=mdy-all |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |archivedate=2012-02-07 }}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/63992-book-deals-week-of-september-15-2014.html|title=Book Deals: Week of September 15, 2014|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://benhwinters.com/category/underground-airlines/|title=Underground Airlines – Ben H. Winters|website=benhwinters.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=July 2016 Indie Next List #1 Great Read|url=https://www.indiebound.org/articles/ccusick/july-2016-indie-next-list-1-great-read|website=Indie Next|accessdate=4 January 2017}}
13. ^{{cite web|title=Underground Airlines a NYT bestseller|url=http://benhwinters.com/underground-airlines-a-nyt-bestseller/|website=BenHWinters.com|accessdate=4 January 2017}}
14. ^https://www.npr.org/2019/02/10/692512716/lies-are-illegal-in-the-golden-state-of-ben-winters
15. ^https://www.bookweb.org/news/january-2019-indie-next-list-preview-109238
16. ^https://www.bookofthemonth.com/golden-state-416
17. ^https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/beyond-201984-a-review-of-golden-state-by-ben-h-winters
18. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/books/ben-winters-underground-airlines.html|title=In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|date=2016-07-04|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/aug05/9aug05slut.htm|title='Slut,' a new musical written by Ben H. Winters and Stephen Sislen, at the American Theatre of Actors on the 13 Sep - 13 Nov 2005|website=www.newyorktheatreguide.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
20. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.theatricalrights.com/node/2891 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-09-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925102132/http://www.theatricalrights.com/node/2891 |archivedate=2015-09-25 |df= }}
21. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/7396/midnight-ride-of-paul-revere-the|title=Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, The {{!}} Samuel French|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
22. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5763/tooth-fairy-tale-a|title=(Tooth) Fairy Tale, A {{!}} Samuel French|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}
23. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/477/uncle-pirate|title=Uncle Pirate {{!}} Samuel French|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=2016-07-05|df=mdy-all}}

Early life and education