Ben Field (pseudonym of Moe Bragin), (October 15, 1900 – June 14, 1986),[2] was an American writer who authored five novels.
Moe Braginsky was five years old when he arrived at Ellis Island on March 25, 1906[1] with his then 26-year-old mother, Bessie, and a younger brother Jacob.
[7] Short stories cited as distinctive were Cow,[8] Flowers and Weeds,[9] It Isn't Pie,[10] New Tuxedo,[11] No Groundhog's Life,[12] Praying Mantis,[13] and We Take Mama Out.
His early reputation was established by short stories that are anthologized with the likes of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Porter, Eudora Welty and John Steinbeck.
[15][16][17][18][19][20] His first major work was a collection of short stories, The Cock's Funeral, published in 1937 with an introduction by Erskine Caldwell.