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For the U.S. federal judge, see Benjamin Hale Settle.

Benjamin Campbell Hale (born August 20, 1983 in Berkeley, California) is an American novelist residing based in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where in he attended Fairview High School. In 2006, he received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and earned an M.F.A. in 2008 from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an Iowa Provost's Fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus Award.

Hale's first novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, was released by by Twelve Books on February 2, 2011 to largely positive reviews. The novel tells the story of an extraordinarily precocious chimpanzee who learns to speak in English and develops a romantic relationship with a human female primatologist. Narrated in the protagonist ape's own voice, the novel depicts Bruno Littlemore's development from a captive zoo animal into a virtually-human aesthete and intellectual, often highlighting his struggle to negotiate the human and animal aspects of his character. The book will be released by Twelve Books on February 2, 2011.

Hale is represented by DiFiore and Company, and is currently working on a second novel.

Bibliography

• Hale, Benjamin (2011). The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. New York: Twelve Books. ISBN 9780446575072.