Ben Green, a freelance writer and journalist, is on the faculty of Florida State University and the author of several nonfiction books addressing various events and people that have marked the history of the state of Florida. His first work, Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village, is based largely on oral accounts documenting the history of Cortez, a small town founded in 1880, where a number of Green's relatives have resided.

Ben is also the founding teacher of the School for Applied Individualized Learning (SAIL); Florida Education Association, communications specialist; AFL-CIO, Florida, communications director and program director; Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, senior management trainer of the Florida Center for Public Management, 1986—.