Ben Platt is senior editor and global coordinator at Public Books. Previously a book editor at Basic Books and Penguin Press, he is currently the director of the community speaker series SHELTER. In 2018, he was a keynote speaker at the Object Lessons Institute, a writing workshop for scholars and nonfiction writers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ben is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and lives in Brooklyn. 

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