
Ben H. Winters is the author most recently of the novel The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021). He is also the author of the novel Golden State; the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines; The Last Policeman and its two sequels; the horror novel Bedbugs; 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 is the creator and co-showrunner of Tracker, forthcoming on CBS. Previously 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”– Stranger, Inside Jobs, Q&A, and Self Help—and several plays and musicals. His reviews appear frequently 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, IN. These days he lives in LA with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.
Series
Books

Self Help
2022

The Ultimate Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
2012

Bedbugs
2011

The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
2009

Inside Jobs
Tales from a Time of Quarantine
2020

Romantically Disturbed
Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out
2014

World of Trouble
2014

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
2013

Countdown City
2013

More Tales to Keep You Up at Night
2014

Underground Airlines
2016

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
2009

Android Karenina
2010

Q&A
2021

Hitchhikers
2025

Stranger
2023

The Quiet Boy
2021

The Last Policeman
2012

Big Time
2024

The Bonus Room
2023

Golden State
2019

The Mystery of the Missing Everything
2011

Tales to Keep You Up at Night
2013