Emily Benedek

Emily Benedek graduated from Harvard College, where she played on Harvard's first women's varsity soccer team, and was a Mary Cary Agassiz Scholar. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Dallas Morning News, Mosaic, Tabletmag.com, and on NPR, among others. Her first book, The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.), was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. She is the author...See more

Emily Benedek graduated from Harvard College, where she played on Harvard's first women's varsity soccer team, and was a Mary Cary Agassiz Scholar. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Dallas Morning News, Mosaic, Tabletmag.com, and on NPR, among others. Her first book, The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.), was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. She is the author of Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), and a memoir, Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate (Schocken). She is also the author of Hometown Betrayal: A Tragic Story of Secrecy and Sexual Abuse in Mormon Country (Greenleaf Press). She has two daughters and lives in New York City. See less