The InterDependent

Beryl Lieff Benderly is a freelance writer who specializes in science and health care and contributes regularly to Science magazine's Web site and Prism magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Scientific American, Slate, Self, Health, Glamour and Smithsonian, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. She has written numerous books as well, most recently, with Hasia Diner, "Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America From Colonial Times to the Present." Benderly has received an array of awards for her writing, including an M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism fellowship. She did doctoral work in anthropology at Washington University and has an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.