Benita Eisler

Benita Eisler (born July 24, 1937, in New York City) is an American writer and educator. She is best known for her biographies of historic figures, including Lord Byron, Georgia O'Keeffe, and George Catlin.

Personal life Eisler was born on July 24, 1937, in New York City to Morris Aaron and Frances Blitzer.

She is Jewish.

Eisler edited The Lowell Offering, which was released in 1977. She published her first book, Class ACT, in 1983.

She has also taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at Princeton University. Naked in the Marketplace received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews, who highlighted the way "Eisler skillfully incorporates much correspondence within a frame of lively writing."

Publications

As author

Class ACT: America's Last Dirty Secret (1983) Private Lives: Men and Women of the Fifties (1986) O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance (1991) Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame (1999) Chopin's Funeral (2003) Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand (2004) The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman (2013)

As editor

The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1945) (1977)