Benjamin Griffin

Benjamin Griffin, an expert on the life and writings of Mark Twain, has been creating scholarly editions of the great author’s works for almost 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 also studied guitar under Joe Satriani. He has been a lecturer in English at UCLA and UC Berkeley, as well as a bookseller and rare books cataloger. His editorial credits include the three volumes of Mark Twain’s Autobiography; A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings; Mark Twain’s Civil War. His latest publication is a groundbreaking critical edition of Pudd’nhead Wilson (April 2024), which gives three forms of the text, painstakingly reconstructed from original manuscripts and typescripts.