Benjamin Griffin

Benjamin Griffin, an expert on the life and writings of Mark Twain, has been creating scholarly editions of the great humorist’s works for more than twenty years. He is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, a research unit of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Ben studied English literature at UC Berkeley, St. Andrews University, and Cambridge University (PhD). He has been a lecturer in English at UCLA and UC Berkeley. His editorial credits include the three volumes of Mark Twain’s Autobiography; A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings; Mark Twain’s Civil War; and the groundbreaking three-text edition of Pudd'nhead Wilson.