Biography

Ben H. Winters is best known for the 2009 parody novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is a parody novel by Ben H. Winters, with Jane Austen credited as co-author. It is a mashup story containing elements from Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility and common tropes from sea monster stories. It is the thematic sequel to another 2009...

, which reached the New York Times best seller list in September 2009. His second novel, Android Karenina

Android Karenina

Android Karenina is a 2010 parody novel written by Ben H. Winters and based on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The novel is a mashup, adding steam punk elements to the Russian 19th-century environment of Anna Karenina, a book first published in 1877....

(Quirk Books

Quirk Books

Quirk Books is an independent book publisher based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The company was founded by David Borgenicht, co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, which has spawned sequels, as well as a TBS television series and a board game. Quirk develops "Coffee...

), was published in June of 2010; his young adult novel, The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, was published by HarperCollins on September 21, 2010. Finkleman was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America on Jan. 19, 2011.

Winters has also written numerous books in the Worst-Case Scenario Series.

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 is a 1998 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was active in the comedy group Mama's Pot Roast. In high school, he played in the punk band Corm, alongside John Davis, now of Title Tracks

Title Tracks

Title Tracks is the indie pop/rock solo project from Washington D.C.-based musician John Davis .In early 2008, although still a member of the band Georgie James, Davis began writing the songs that would form the basis for his first solo record...

.

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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