Ben Dolnick (born 1982) is an American fiction writer and author of the novels Zoology (2007), You Know Who You Are (2011), and At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel (2013).

Ben Dolnick was born and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Through his mother's side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times.

[1][2] He attended Georgetown Day School and went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and has worked as a "zookeeper" at the Central Park Zoo.

He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.