A retired professor of English, Ben Forkner has published three books on Audubon: John James Audubon: Journaux et Récits; John James Audubon: Selected Journals and Other Writings; and John James Audubon Portfolio. He has also published Louisiana Stories, Cajun, and a dozen books on writers of Ireland and the American South.
| Stories of the Modern South | 1977 |
| Modern Irish Short Stories | 1980 |
| A Modern Southern Reader: Major Stories, Drama, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, and Reminiscences from the Twentieth-Century South | 1986 |
| New Book of Dubliners (Modern Fiction) | 1988 |
| Stories of the Old South | 1989 |
| Louisiana Stories | 1990 |
| Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 1990 |
| A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920 | 1991 |
| Cajun | 1992 |
| Audubon: Selected Journals and Other Writings | 1996 |
| Audubon on Louisiana: Selected Writings of John James Audubon | 2018 |
