Ben Pleasants

Ben Pleasants is a noted playwright. His plays include The Gluttons (1970), Winter in Mongolia (1975), The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars (1998), Contentious Minds: The Mary McCarthy/Lillian Hellman Affair (2002), and The Ghosts of Pumpkin Park (2011). Spearmint Leaves (2010) is his first novel. The Victory of Defeat is his second.

Ben Pleasants is a noted playwright. His plays include The Gluttons (1970), Winter in Mongolia (1975), The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars (1998), Contentious Minds: The Mary McCarthy/Lillian Hellman Affair (2002), and The Ghosts of Pumpkin Park (2011). Spearmint Leaves (2010) is his first novel. The Victory of Defeat is his second. See less