Benjamin Hedin is an American author ofParisian descent who has published widely. He is also a university professor and has written and produced two documentary feature films.

Hedin, son of poet and translator Robert Hedin, was born inParis, France, and raised inNorth Carolina andMinnesota. After studying music at theCollege of William and Mary, he earned his M.F.A. in fiction fromThe New School. He then began teaching, first atLong Island University and The New School, then in the Expository Writing Program atNew York University.^[1]

Hedin's fiction, essays, and interviews have been published inThe New Yorker,^[2]Slate,^[3]The Nation,^[4]Chicago Tribune,Poets and Writers,Salmagundi,The Georgia Review,The Gettysburg Review, andRadio Silence. He is the editor ofStudio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, widely regarded as one of the finest collections of music writing,^[5] and the author ofIn Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now. He wrote and produced the documentaryTwo Trains Runnin'^[6] and wrote the documentaryMLK/FBI. His debut novel,Under the Spell will be published byNorthwestern University Press in 2021.^[7]

• Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader (Hedin as editor), W. W. Norton & Company, 2005,ISBN 978-0393327427
• In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now, City Lights, 2015,ISBN 978-0872866478
• Under the Spell: A Novel,Northwestern University Press, 2021,ISBN 978-0-8101-4372-2

• Two Trains Runnin' (Hedin as writer, producer), Avalon Films, 2016^[6]
• MLK/FBI (Hedin as co-writer, producer), IFC Films, 2020

• Benjamin Hedin website
• Benjamin Hedin on IMDb

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