Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels, The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, and an essay, available here about her parents’ marriage and the Mad Dog Taborsky murder that preceded it. She is the editor of the forthcoming anthology, Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (November Free Press/Simon and Schuster).
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