Biography

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He has written hundreds of thousands of words about financial fraud and investment policy, but two words made him a household name: "Bueller" and "Anyone, Anyone." (From his iconic role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off.")

Ben Stein has written novels that the New York Times describes as "stunning," but what you have probably heard him talk about recently are "dry eyes, red eyes, and clear eyes." He worked and demonstrated and struggled for voting rights for African Americans, and he also was a speech writer for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He introduced the world to complex concepts of the politics of culture, but he also introduced the world to Jimmy Kimmel and made possible “The Man Show”.

Lawyer, teacher, actor, comic, economist, father, novelist, essayist, expert on finance, meet Ben Stein!

Ben Stein was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates. He helped found the Journal of Law and Social Policy while at Yale.

He has worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and a university adjunct at American University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Pepperdine University.

In 1973 and 1974, Ben Stein was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon at The White House and then for Gerald Ford. He has been a columnist and editorial writer for “The Wall Street Journal”, a syndicated columnist for “The Los Angeles Herald Examiner” and a frequent contributor to "Barrons", where his articles about the ethics of management buyouts and issues of fraud in the Milken Drexel junk bond scheme drew major national attention.

He has been a regular columnist for “Los Angeles Magazine”, “New York Magazine” and has written a lengthy diary for more than ten years for “The American Spectator”. He also writes frequently for “The Washington Post”, “The Wall Street Journal” op. ed. and almost every other imaginable magazine.

He was also the host of the long running comedy quiz show on Comedy Central, “Win Ben Stein's Money”, a show that won seven Emmies.