An editor and researcher who cares about your book as much as you do
“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, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Joe McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Based in Brooklyn, I work closely with authors, journalists, and self-published writers, providing research support, developmental editing, book-coaching, fact-checking, proofreading, and permissions. Right now, I’m especially interested in crafting book proposals and investigative research.
In 2021, I partnered with Evelyn Duffy, longtime research assistant and in-house editor to Bob Woodward, at Open Boat Editing on editing, writing, research, and journalism projects.
I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2020 from Trinity College, where I majored in English and music, and minored in classical antiquity. I was the editor in chief of the student newspaper, and on the editorial board for The Trinity Papers, the College’s annual academic publication.
In November 2020, I graduated from the Columbia Publishing Course.
In addition to my experience with bestselling and first-time authors, I have 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. I’m a pianist and host a live classical music radio show every Monday on Radio Free Brooklyn.