Ben Blum

Ben Blum is an American author of the popular novel “Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime”. Ben Blum is a native of Denver Colorado. He went to the University of California Berkeley, from where he got his computer science PhD, got his MFA from New York University in the process getting the New York Times Foundation Fellowship, and becoming a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He currently lives with his stepdaughter and wife in Brooklyn New York. He writes the novel about his cousin Alex Blum who was waiting for deployment to Iraq before he was inexplicably involved in a bank heist that he blamed on Luke Elliot Sommer his Specialist. In the novel “Ranger Games”, Ben tries to wrap his head around how his cousin that had always been an obedient boy and had always dreamed of joining the Army Rangers could mess up so badly. While Alex whiled his time waiting for trial at the federal detention center, Ben was trying to make sense of it all.