BenBella Books


BenBella Books is an independent publishing house based in Dallas, Texas. BenBella was founded by Glenn Yeffeth in 2001. It specializes in nonfiction books on popular culture, health, and nutrition, along with books on science, politics, psychology, and other topics.

Selected works

BenBella published the nutrition book The China Study by T. Colin Campbell in 2005, and Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, written by defense attorney Jose Baez about the Casey Anthony trial, in 2013.
The company published Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir by guitarist Joe Satriani in May 2014, the Francis J. Greenburger autobiography Risk Game: Self-Portrait of an Entrepreneur in 2016, and In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World, the memoirs of former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal, in 2017. In 2018, BenBella announced they will be publishing Nicole Lapin's third book, Becoming Super Woman.
The company published Murder in the Courthouse, a legal thriller by Nancy Grace, in 2016.
Smart Pop is an imprint of BenBella that publishes a line of essay anthologies on popular culture. Titles include The Psychology of Harry Potter, Grey's Anatomy 101, The Science of Dune, and The Science of Michael Crichton.