Jeff Benedict
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Jeff Benedict is considered one of America’s top nonfiction writers. He is a special features contributor for Sports Illustrated, a columnist for SI.com and the author of 10 critically acclaimed books including "Poisoned," "Little Pink House," "The Mormon Way of Doing Business," "Without Reservation" and "Pros and Cons." He has written and produced television documentaries, and his reporting has been the basis of feature segments on "60 Minutes," ABC’s "20/20," NBC’s "Dateline," HBO’s "Real Sports" and the Discovery Channel. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. He has a blog, www.jeffbenedict.com and is a Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Virginia University.
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I was traveling to New York on Monday when my editor called and shared the cover language for the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated that went on sale this week: "The best high school basketball player since ...
Jeff Benedict talks about his wife, Lydia.
I have a confession to make. A couple of weeks ago, my 15-year-old son, Tennyson, published his first piece of writing online, a wonderfully written essay on global warming. Well researched. Compelling. Hard to...
The call came the day after Christmas. "Grandpa's aneurysm ruptured." I was at home in Virginia, about to embark on my annual holiday tradition of playing Monopoly with my children. My grandfather was being air...
For the past three months I've been working on one of the best stories of my career. It appears in Sports Illustrated today and is called "Straight Outta Compton." It's about a boy, his parents, and their quest...
If I could be someone else for five minutes, I'd be Van Morrison so I could sing "Someone Like You" to my wife.
Remember Ray Brown?
On a cold, gray day in early 1962, 41-year-old artist Ed Vebell put down his paintbrush and stepped back from the easel in his seaside studio in Westport, Conn.
Recently my publisher announced that Lifetime is making a movie based on "Little Pink House," and Brooke Shields, who is currently on Broadway playing Morticia in "The Addams Family," will star in the film as S...
Last week I took a business trip to Salt Lake City. Mark Willes, the CEO of Deseret Management Corp., asked me to conduct a writing seminar on the elements of storytelling for the folks at KSLTV and KSL Newsrad...