{"id":9107,"date":"2017-01-19T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?post_type=pbauthor&#038;p=9107"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:24:26","slug":"ben-platt","status":"publish","type":"pbauthor","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/ben-platt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-platt.com\/\">Ben Platt<\/a> is editorial director\u00a0at\u00a0<em>Public Books <\/em>and the coeditor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/series\/public-thinker\/\">Public Thinker<\/a> series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books, proposals, and articles Ben has edited have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-platt.com\">published<\/a> by\u00a0Riverhead Books, Penguin Press, Simon &amp; Schuster, W. W. Norton &amp; Company, Picador, Melville House, Verso, Basic Books, St. Martin\u2019s Press, Bold Type Books, HarperCollins, Pluto Books, SFMOMA,  <em>Asian Labour Review<\/em>, <em>JSTOR Daily<\/em>, <em>New_ Public<\/em>, <em>Books &amp; Ideas<\/em>, <em>Gotham<\/em>, <em>NEUT<\/em>, <em>Sydney Review of Books<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15702,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9107","pbauthor","type-pbauthor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ben Platt - Public Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben Platt is editorial director\u00a0at\u00a0Public Books and the coeditor of the Public Thinker series. 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