The title compound, C16H13N, consists of a benzoato group fused to the c-face of the carbazole skeleton, in which the benzoato fused ring of the carbazole skeleton is not planar and adopts a twisted conformation. It belongs to the space group Pbca with cell parameters a = 7.6863(10), b = 20.5484(9) and c = 15.0296(11)Å.
