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  <name><![CDATA[Helen Benedict]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[	Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is a novelist and journalist specializing in issues of social justice.  In 2009 she will have two books published, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (nonfiction, Beacon Press) and The Edge of Eden (a novel, The Soho Press).
        In May 2008, she had an Op-Ed in the New York Times about female soldiers, and in March 2007, published a piece on the subject in Salon magazine, which won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She also recently published stories on soldiers in Ms., In These Times, Huffington Post, The New York Times, and Columbia magazine. 
	 She has been a newspaper feature writer in London and California, has written for magazines including The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Nation, Poets &amp; Writers, and Women's Review of Books, and is widely anthologized. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center of the Arts, and the Freedom Forum.

]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, W.E.B. DuBois, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte]]></influences>    <hometown>London, England</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Opposite of Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Portraits in Print: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Benedict]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Edge of Eden]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sailor's Wife]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Benedict]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bad Angel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Benedict]]></name>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Recovery]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Benedict]]></name>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Safe, Strong &amp; Streetwise]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Portraits in Print]]></title>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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