![]() ![]() In 1981, Benedict moved to New York, where she freelanced for five years, publishing short stories and articles in literary journals, magazines and newspapers. The anthology also contained Benedict’s magazine profiles of Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Bernard Malamud and Paule Marshall. ![]() She first began to publish in the United States that year and into the 1980s, with profiles of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and New York writer Leonard Michaels, later collected in her anthology, Portraits in Print. She worked for newspapers in both countries, and obtained her master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Her background as a child of anthropologists has informed her work both as a novelist and a journalist.īenedict grew up partly in London, partly in California, and attended university in both England and the United States. Seychelles became the setting for Benedict’s novel, The Edge of Eden. As a child, she lived in Mauritius and Seychelles, where her parents conducted fieldwork. ![]() Benedict was born in London, England, to parents who were American anthropologists. ![]()
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