Ben Platt is editorial director at Public Books and the coeditor of the Public Thinker series.
Books, proposals, and articles Ben has edited have been 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, 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. Books edited by Ben have been 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 to undergraduate and graduate students at New York University, University of British Columbia, University of Connecticut, Object Lessons Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Harvard University.
