Writer, editor, researcher

“Ben put his finger on the precise parts of my manuscript that I was worried about being underdeveloped, and he gave me a solid path forward—I couldn’t have asked for anything better. I don’t know that I would have been able to muster the clarity needed for this revision without his edit.”

-David Conrad-Pérez, author of the forthcoming Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and The Origins of Modern Charity

Based in Brooklyn, I work closely with journalists, historians, biographers, and first-time authors to make their books the best that they can be through proposal-writing, book-coaching, developmental editing, and investigative research.

Since 2021, I have collaborated with Evelyn Duffy, longtime research assistant and in-house editor to Bob Woodward, and her book-doctoring firm Open Boat Editing on editing, writing, research, and journalism projects.

I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College, where I majored in English and music, and minored in classical antiquity. I am also a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and have served as an application evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program.

In a previous life, I worked as a choral singer, a pizza boy, a special collections associate at a rare books library, and a bookseller at a not-so-rare bookstore.

Before moving to New York, I grew up in rural Massachusetts, where I chopped wood and sketched birds.

“Ben is extremely smart, razor sharp, and a joy to work with. He’s helped me refine two books (so far), each time teasing out pivotal characters, themes, and moments. He has a deft touch on the page, and, just as importantly, a gentle but firm disposition that makes me and my work better.”
Daniel Stone, former National Geographic Senior Editor and author of American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice

Books I’ve Worked On:

“I’ve hired scores of researchers to help with my nine non-fiction books, and can’t think of one more skilled and meticulous than Ben. But don’t trust what I say; see what I did, which was to keep Ben on for as long as he had time then, which was deep into the research and writing of Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Joe McCarthy.”
larry tye, author of “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Joe McCarthy”

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