Ben Platt is an editor. Manuscripts, proposals, and articles he edited are published by Penguin Press, Riverhead Books, W. W. Norton & Company, Picador, Melville House, Verso, Basic Books, St. Martin’s Press, Bold Type Books, HarperCollins, SFMOMA, JSTOR Daily, New_ Public, Books & Ideas, Sydney Review of Books, Stanford University Press, Belknap Press, University of Chicago Press, and Princeton University Press; they are forthcoming from Riverhead, Bold Type, Pluto Press, New York University Press, Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, and Princeton University Press.
Books that Ben has edited have been praised by the New York Times, New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Ms. Magazine, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Marshall Project, Discover, Nature, Scientific American, Newsweek, Bookforum, Kirkus (*), Publishers Weekly (*), Library Journal (*), and New York Review of Books. Books he has edited have been selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year, as well as awarded the Bancroft Prize.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ben has spoken about editing and publishing at Columbia University, New York University, University of British Columbia, University of Connecticut, DePauw University, Object Lessons Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Harvard University.
Ben is editorial director at Public Books.