Emily Benedek

NationalityAmericanAlma materHarvard College

Emily Benedek is an American journalist and author. She is a graduate of Harvard College.

She has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, among others. She writes regularly for Tablet^[1] magazine.

To research her novel, Red Sea, Benedek followed an FBI special agent working counterterrorism for a year. She has spent hundreds of hours interviewing foreign covert operators and wrote about an American F-15c fighter pilot. She has reported multiple stories about computer hackers.^[2]

• The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of Navajo–Hopi Land Dispute (Knopf, 1992; University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8061-3125-X)
• Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey (Knopf, August 22, 1995, ISBN 978-0679421436)
• Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: A Spiritual Journey (Shocken Books/Random House of Canada, April 3, 2001, ISBN 0-8052-4138-8)
• Red Sea (novel) (St Martins Press, September 18, 2007, ISBN 9780312354916)
• "Beggar's Opera" (novel) "Saat der Angst," (Goldmann Verlag), March 17, 2014