An editor and researcher who cares about your book as much as you do
“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:
“Tyler Loveless and Ben Gambuzza contributed rigorous archival and genealogical research and a keen understanding of Middle Tennessee, the whiskey industry past and present, and countless topics in between. Their diligence, intellectual curiosity, and investigative skills were instrumental to building a bridge between past and present.”
Fawn Weaver, NEw York Times bestselling author of Love & whiskey
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