NMLP P-002838 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain · Ecco / HarperCollins · 2012

The US Ecco / HarperCollins hardcover (May 2012) is the true first edition. The novel won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was a 2012 National Book Award finalist. It did NOT win the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-002838 for "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002838, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).