Ben Shattuck
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Ben Shattuck

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Ben Shattuck is the author of "The History of Sound" (Viking, July 2024) and "Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau" (Tin House, April 2022). "Six Walks" was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.
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