Elizabeth Benedict

Elizabeth Benedict
"Benedict's voice is a wonderful thing: sharp, quick, insightful ... and always human." - Denver Post

New Stuff

Check here for the most up-to-date info on Huff Post pieces, other publications, appearances, and random and exotic miscellany.

Elizabeth Benedict had the good fortune to study writing at Barnard College with Elizabeth Hardwick, who passed away on December 2nd. Benedict's recollections of Ms. Hardwick just appeared on Huffington Post. She would love to hear from readers and writers with memories of Ms. Hardwick.

"Happy families are all alike. Every happy family touched by murder is shattered in its own distinctive way." Read Elizabeth Benedict's recent New York Times Op-Ed about her family history and the evolution of her thoughts on the death penalty.

Photo Essay: Taking Pictures After Writing Many Books. A collection of pictures by Elizabeth Benedict with a short introduction.

"What I Learned About Sex On the Internet," a new essay about Christian porn, Bush's war, and the Google Effect appears in Daedalus, Spring 2007. Click here for a free copy of the essay.

Look for Elizabeth Benedict's contribution to Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (W.W. Norton) edited by Ellen Sussman.

Elizabeth Benedict's interview on Writers on Writing, UC Irvine's KUCI radio program with Barbara deMarco, recently became available for download here as part of KUCI Talk On Demand Archive.

See the Essays section for some recent additions.

What To Read

"Her wit is as sharp as her eye, and twice as fast. She writes the hard, horrifying truth about human nature, and it is addictively entertaining... A rare find...." - Newsday

Available in paperback.

"The great life of this book arises out of Benedict's judicious and sometimes startling mastery of language. The casual dialogue here and the descriptions of the ordinary remind me of Raymond Carver's short stories." - Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR

Available in paperback.

What To Cook

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Neil Connolly's wonderful recipes, photographs, reminiscences of his decade working on the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, have the power to lure us into their world. Text by Elizabeth Benedict.

Hardcover edition: 125 recipes, over 200 photos.