Ben George

Ben George (Staff ’14, ’17, ’19) is a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company, where he has worked with Rick Bass, David Bezmozgis, Tony Earley, James Hannaham, Adam Haslett, Leslie Jamison, Rick Moody, Lauren Slater, Luis Alberto Urrea, Amy Waldman, and Daniel Woodrell, among other writers. He has edited the national bestsellers The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison; The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea; Honeydew, by Edith Pearlman, which was long-listed for the National Book Award; For a Little While by Rick Bass, which won the Story Prize; and Imagine Me Gone, by Adam Haslett, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books he has edited include the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods, by James Hannaham, and the National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Binocular Vision, by Edith Pearlman. Prior to joining Little, Brown, he was an editor at Viking Penguin and before that the editor of the literary journal Ecotone, where he worked with Annie Proulx, Jonathan Lethem, Denis Johnson, Charles Baxter, Terry Tempest Williams, Ron Rash, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, among many others.