BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Ben's profile of John Irving will appear in the April 23rd issue of TIME magazine.

Ben -- and his sister Jennifer Percy -- have both been named 2012 NEA fellows.

Ben is adapting his novel The Wilding into a screenplay for director Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams)

A profile of Ben recently appeared in The Oregonian.

The Wilding wins the 2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction

The Gotham Group buys film rights to Red Moon. Click here to read the article in Variety.

Ben is excited to report that he has sold his next novel, Red Moon, to Grand Central / Hachette, where he will be working with editor Helen Atsma.

The Wilding received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. "A contemporary Deliverance."

Ben scaled and hammocked the night in a 250-ft old growth Douglas fir. His article "Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights" was featured in the October 9, 2010 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read.

Click here to read Ben's article "Home Improvement: Revision as Renovation" from Poets & Writers magazine.

USA Today has listed the illustrated adaptation of Refresh, Refresh as one of the top ten comics/graphic novels of the year.

Dodge dropped off a one-ton Ram at Ben's house. He writes about the experience in the Esquire. Click here to read the article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Film adaptations based on the work of Benjamin Percy

 

 



 

Refresh, Refresh

Adapted by writer/director James Ponsoldt ("Off the Black")

One of five screenplays workshopped at the invite-only Sundance Institute's Screenwriter's Lab, 2007

Winner, Lynn Auerbach Award, 2007

One of twelve finalists for the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, with the winner to be announced at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

Filmmaker James Ponsoldt is working to put together a team for the filming of "Refresh, Refresh" on-site in Central Oregon.

 

Red Moon

Film Rights to The Gotham Group