Ben Ehrenreich (born 1972) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who lives in Los Angeles. Ehrenreich began working as a journalist in the alternative press in the late 1990s, publishing extensively in LA Weekly and the Village Voice. His journalism, essays and criticism have since appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, and the London Review of Books. He has reported from Afghanistan, Haiti, Cambodia, El Salvador, and all over the United States.His first novel,The Suitors, . was published by Counterpoint Press in 2006. Reviewing it, the American Library Association named him "a writer to watch" while Publishers Weekly called him "an original talent." Writing in BOMB, the novelist Frederic Tuten called The Suitors “truly a ravishing book.” Ehrenreich’s short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, BOMB, Black Clock and many other publications.Ehrenreich also teaches in the graduate writing program at Otis College of Art and Design. He is the son of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and psychologist John Ehrenreich.