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Elizabeth Benedict

Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost (which Fresh Air's Maureen Corrigan chose as one of her top five novels of 2001), The Practice of Deceit, and Slow Dancing, which was short-listed for the National Book Award and The LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, which is used widely in creative writing programs in the US and abroad. She writes regularly about books and culture for The Huffington Post and has just launched a regular Huff Po column, "Read Any Good Books Lately?" Her nonfiction also appears in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Harper's Bazaar, The... Read full bio

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Mentors, Muses & Monsters
Mentors, Muses & Monsters 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives By: Elizabeth Benedict
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: October 27, 2009
For Denis Johnson, it was Leonard Gardner's cult favorite Fat City; for Jonathan Safran Foer, it was a brief encounter with Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai; Mary Gordon's mentors were two Barnard professors, writers Elizabeth...
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