Ben Greenman (born September 28, 1969) is an American novelist, magazine journalist, and publishing executive who has written more than twenty fiction and non-fiction books, including collaborations with pop-music artists like Questlove, George Clinton, Brian Wilson, Gene Simmons, and others.

After working at Miami New Times, Greenman enrolled in a Ph.D. program in literature at Northwestern University but left after earning his master's degree.

He moved to New York City and worked for a variety of book packagers, publishers, and magazines, including Michael Wolff & Company and Yahoo!

[6] In 2009, Melville House published Greenman's second novel, which was a fictionalized biography of a funk-rock star based loosely on Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and others.

[8] In 2010, Greenman adapted the short stories of the Russian master Anton Chekhov, updating them by replacing their characters with modern celebrities.

The book included a character who was a chart artist and whose work consisted of meta-charts; Greenman created a number of them and posted them at ILoveCharts.com and McSweeneys, among other places.

[16][17] Greenman's journalism and short fiction have appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker,[18] where he worked as an editor from 2000 to 2014, The Paris Review,[19] Zoetrope: All-Story.

Greenman is married to art director Gail Ghezzi and has two children: Daniel and Jakob (6'2"), both of whom were born when the couple lived in Brooklyn.