ABOUT BENJAMIN

Benjamin Martin is a husband, father, son, and lifelong storyteller who has spent much of his life trying to understand the difference between what we fear and what is actually true.

Born and raised in Virginia, Ben grew up in a close-knit family and eventually joined his family's commercial construction business, a company with more than a century of history. He has spent his professional life building things, but becoming a father taught him that the most important things we build cannot be measured in blueprints or balance sheets. Ben's first experience with fatherhood brought many of his lifelong fears to the surface. Anxiety, illness, relationships, family history, and the pressure to become the father he wanted to be forced him to confront stories about himself that he had carried for years. He began writing The Stories We Tell Ourselves as a way to make sense of those experiences.