Ben Platt is an editor. Manuscripts, proposals, and articles Ben edited are published by Riverhead Books, Penguin Press, Simon & Schuster, W. W. Norton & Company, Picador, Melville House, Verso, Basic Books, St. Martin’s Press, Bold Type Books, HarperCollins, Pluto Books, SFMOMA, Public Books, Asian Labour Review, JSTOR Daily, New_ Public, Books & Ideas, Gotham, NEUT, Sydney Review of Books, Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, Belknap Press, University of Chicago Press, and Princeton University Press; they are forthcoming from, among others, Columbia University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Manchester University Press, Stanford University Press, and Princeton University Press.

Books edited by Ben have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Washington Post Notable Books of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, Financial Times Best Books of the Summer, and New York Times Critics’ Top Books of the Year, as well as awarded the Bancroft Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award.

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.