Winters

Ben H. Winters is the acclaimed author of thrillers, mysteries and suspense novels often with a science fiction twist.  His most recent novel, Big Time (Mulholland/Little Brown, March 2024) releases as the CBS hit show Tracker, for which Winters is the showrunner, writer and executive producer has been greenlighted to a second season.

Winters fiction includes The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021/paperback November 2022), Golden State, the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines, The Last Policeman and its two sequels; the horror novel The Bonus Room; and several works for young readers. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was also a Times bestseller. Ben has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing, the Philip K. Dick award in science fiction, the Sidewise Award for alternate history, and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire. Ben also writes for film and television; he was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcoming Apple TV+ drama Manhunt. He has contributed short stories to many anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Lightspeed. He is the author of four “Audible Originals”– Inside Jobs, Q&A,  Self Help, and Stranger — and several plays and musicals. His reviews and essays have appeared in Slate and in the New York Times Book Review.  Ben was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, educated in St. Louis, and then grew up a bunch more, in various ways, in places like Chicago, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Indianapolis. He lives in LA with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.