ELIZABETH BENEDICT is the author of eight books and hundreds of articles and essays on many topics, as well as the editor of three anthologies, including “Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives.” Her five novels, including “Almost” and “Slow Dancing,” include a National Book Award finalist, Notable NY Times picks, and a Best Fiction of the Year by Newsweek and NPR’s Fresh Air. Her 2023 memoir, “Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own,” was deemed a “page-turner” by Sigrid Nunez, “essential reading for doctors and medical students” by a Harvard Medical School faculty member, and a “breathtaking whodunnit–or rather, a whatdunnit” by the Boston Globe. ElizabethBenedict.com