Ben Stein

About Ben Stein

Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born on Nov. 25, 1944 in Washington,
D.C. The son of noted economist and writer
Herbert Stein, he grew up in Silver
Spring, Md., and attended Montgomery Blair High School. Some of his
classmates included journalist
Carl Bernstein, and actors
Goldie Hawn and
Sylvester Stallone. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics and as
valedictorian of the 1970 Yale Law School class. He has worked as a
poverty lawyer, a trial lawyer, a university adjunct (American
University, University of California at Santa Cruz and Pepperdine
University), a speech writer for Presidents
Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford and a columnist for The
Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, King Features
Syndicate, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, E! Online and The
American Spectator. He also writes frequently for The Washington Post.
Stein has written and published 16 books (seven novels, nine nonfiction
books), the most recent of which is about life with his 12-year-old
son, Tommy. He has been a longtime screenwriter and was one of the
creators of the TV series
Fernwood Tonight (1977). He
has acted and made guest appearances in numerous movies and TV series,
appears in many TV commercials and is the host of two Comedy Central TV
series,
Win Ben Stein's Money (1997)
(October, 1997-2002) and
Turn Ben Stein On (1999).
He is married to entertainment-industry attorney
Alexandra Denman, son
Tom Stein,...

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