Helen Benedict
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female
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London, England, The United Kingdom
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics
influences
James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, W.E.B. DuBois, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte
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February 2009
about this author
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, ha...more
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 2009 |
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Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.55 — 20 ratings — published 1992 3 editions |
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Opposite of Love by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.58 — 19 ratings — published 2007 |
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Portraits in Print: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1992 |
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Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2000 |
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The Edge of Eden by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Bad Angel by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1996 2 editions |
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Recovery by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1985 2 editions |
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Safe, Strong & Streetwise by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1987 |
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Portraits in Print by Helen Benedict (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1991 |
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (Nonfiction)
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said "yes" to attending the event: Reading of new novel, The Edge of Eden, and "The Lonely Soldier.".
date: October 17, 2009 08:21PM location: Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, The United States description: Double reading! My new novel, The Edge of Eden, and my book about women soldiers, The Lonely Soldier. War and its effect on our lives. | |
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said "yes" to attending the event: The LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES, a play by Helen Benedict.
date: September 27, 2009 05:30AM location: LA Mama etc., 74a East 4th. Street, New York, NY, The United States description: Play about women soldiers in the Iraq War in their own words, back from successful run last March. ONE NIGHT ONLY, SEPT. 27. | |
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wrote The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq: The Lonely Soldier, Chapter One.
"More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two. Over 191,500 h"
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"But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream. Nor is it simply reporting with the names changed. It is an amalgam of experience, education, reading, insight, analysis, conversations, observation, and conscious research."
— Helen Benedict
— Helen Benedict
"It is hard to determine what is most disturbing about this bookâthe devious and immoral tactics used by leaders and recruiters to get women to join the military, the terrible poverty and personal violence women were escaping that lead them to be vulnerable to such manipulation, the raping and harassing of women soldiers by their superiors and comrades once they got to Iraq, or the untreated homelessness, illnesses and madness that have haunted women since they came home. The Lonely Soldier is an important book, a crucial accounting of the shameful war on women who gave their bodies, lives and souls for their country.
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— Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist and author of The Vagina Monologues
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— Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist and author of The Vagina Monologues
