About
BEN MATTLIN is a journalist, essayist, and author in Los Angeles.
A senior writer for Financial Advisor magazine, he's also the author of four books and counting: UNBOUND (2025), DISABILITY PRIDE (2022), IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH (2018), and MIRACLE BOY GROWS UP (2012).
His essays have appeared in Time magazine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Self magazine, and been broadcast on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
He's a former contributing editor at Institutional Investor, the late Windows In Financial Services, Dealmaker, Buyside, and Individual Investor magazines. Non-print credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Blonde and Brunette Productions, and the children's television program BIKER MICE FROM MARS.
Mattlin has appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live, CNN, and E! Entertainment Network; been interviewed on NPR's "Morning Edition"; KKFI and KPFK, Los Angeles; KSLC, Salt Lake City; and CKNW, Vancouver; and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Penthouse, and USA Today.
Born in New York City in 1962, Mattlin graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1984. He and his wife have two adult children, a cat, and a turtle.
Featured Work
Unbound: Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist
A collection of short humorous, provocative pieces spanning some 30 years in the life of a somewhat public intellectual.
Other Works
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
2022
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In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance
2018
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Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
2012
