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Ben Greer, born Bernard Eugene Greer (December 4, 1948), is an American novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and raised in the nearby community of Glenn Springs. He attended the University of South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English, and later attended Hollins College, earning a Master of Fine Arts. He published his first novel, Slammer, at the age of 26. He taught at the University of South Carolina for 33 years.

Fiction
Murder in the Holy City, Texas Review Press, 2006 ISBN 9781881515920

Slammer, Voices of the South Series reprint, Louisiana State University Press, 2002 ISBN 0807127892

The Loss of Heaven, Doubleday, 1988 ISBN 0385236166

Time Loves a Hero, Doubleday, 1986 ISBN 0385196628

Halloween, MacMillan, 1978 ISBN 0025455109

Slammer, Atheneum, 1975 ISBN 0689106491

Nonfiction
Presumed Guilty: The Tim Wilkes Story, Wyrick and Co. Press, 1995 ISBN 0941711293

The Campbell Years: Triumph and Tragedy, R.L. Bryan & Co., 1995

Poetry
The Naked Prince: New and Selected Poems, Press 53, 2020 ISBN 9781950413270

The Bright House, Texas Review Press, 2011 ISBN 9781933896618

A Late Disorder, Bay Oak Publishers, 2007

Short Stories
"Blue Hands," That's What I Like (About the South: And Other New Southern Stories for the Nineties), University of South Carolina Press, 1993 ISBN 0872498646

Plays
Little Tin Gods
 * First production, 2008, Longstreet Theatre, University of South Carolina
 * Staged Reading, USC lab theater, Columbia SC, 2007