Ben Coes
Ben Coes grew up in West Simsbury, Connecticut, with a curiosity for both the mechanics of power and the pulse of the world beyond his hometown. That curiosity carried him to Columbia College in New York City, where he honed his storytelling, earning the Bennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction. Yet Coes’ path to the page was far from linear. Early roles as a White House intern and a speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Gulf War offered him an insider’s perspective on political strategy and the shadowed corners of international affairs, experiences that would later shape the tension and authenticity of his novels. When…
