About Ben

For the right answers you need to ask the right questions.

Ben Guest is a best-selling author, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and a championship-winning basketball coach.

His memoir, Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: Memoir of a Namibian Odyssey, chronicles his time coaching professional basketball and the lessons he learned along the way.

Zen was a #1 bestseller in the Amazon category of "Basketball,"

ranking ahead of Kobe Bryant.

Ben co-wrote Through the Fire: A Memoir of Trauma and Loss, Basketball and Triumph with 3x NBA champion Scott Williams, which currently has a five-star rating on Amazon from more than 80 reviews.

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Ben has a BA in English from Amherst College, and MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Mississippi. He taught and trained teachers for two decades.​