Marie Benedict

Marie Benedict is a historical fiction author from Pittsburgh best known for her series of interconnected historical fiction. She studied at Boston College where she graduated magna cum laude and then went to the Boston University School of Law. She then went on to acquire more than a decade of experience in the legal field, working for two of the United States’ premier law firms before she decided to become an author. Even as she was practicing as a lawyer, she always felt that her calling was to unearth the stories of women that had been lost in the historical narrative. For Benedict, her mission is to find the most fascinating, complex and important women in history and tell their stories. She hopes that by doing this, she can bring to light their insights and contributions to both history and how these may be applied in contemporary society. The debut novel of the series was “The Other Einstein” that was published in 2016 and tells the story of the first wife of Albert Einstein, who was also a physicist and might have played a huge role in the many theories and discoveries by the great scientist. She followed that up with “Carnegie’s Maid” a USA Today bestselling title published in 2018 that tells of how an Irish immigrant woman made Carnegie the industrialist into what he was. Marie has also written several historical novels such as “The Chrysalis,” “Brigid of Kildare” and “The Map Thief” under the pseudonym Heather Terrell.