Author

Helen Benedict

Helen Benedict is the author of ten books, including five novels, most recently The Edge of Eden. A professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, her latest nonfiction book was The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (2009) and she wrote a related play, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, which was
performed in New York City in 2009, and will be again in February 2010. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Salon, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, In These Times, and many other publications, and in 2008 she won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her work on the challenges faced by female troops.

Articles by Helen Benedict About Women and War

The Huffington Post: "Women Soldiers Finally Get the Attention They Deserve?" Aug. 19. 2009

The Nation: "The Plight of Women Soldiers." May 5, 2009

BBC News: "Women at War Face Sexual Violence." April 17, 2009

Columbia Magazine: "Betrayal in the Field." Spring 2009.

Huffington Post: "The Pentagon's Annual Report on Sexual Assualt in the Military, or, How to Lie with Statistics." March 20, 2009

Huffington Post: "Violent Veterans: The Big Picture." Jan 14, 2009

Ms. Magazine: "The Scandal of Military Rape." Fall, 2008

In These Times: "Why Soldiers Rape." Aug. 13, 2008.

The New York Times: "For Women Warriors, Deep Wounds, Little Care." May 26, 2008

Salon: "The Private War of Women Soldiers." March 3, 2007.

Articles about Helen's Book, The Lonely Soldier