Ben Dolnick (born 1982) is an American fiction writer and author of the novel Zoology (2007), a coming of age novel mostly set in New York. He was born and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He is the son of Lynn and Edward Dolnick and a nephew of Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. Through his mother's side he is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family, publishers of The New York Times. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and according to the Vintage Random House website has worked as a "zookeeper at the Central Park Zoo, a bookseller, a research assistant in an immunology lab, and a tutor." He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.