| Emily Benedek | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard College |
Emily Benedek is an American journalist and author. She is a graduate of Harvard College.
She has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, among others. She writes regularly for Tablet[1] magazine.
To research her novel, Red Sea, Benedek followed an FBI special agent working counterterrorism for a year. She has spent hundreds of hours interviewing foreign covert operators and wrote about an American F-15c fighter pilot. She has reported multiple stories about computer hackers.[2]