Benita Eisler
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Benita Eisler (born July 24, 1937, in New York City)[1] 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.
Eisler was born on July 24, 1937, in New York City to Morris Aaron and Frances Blitzer.[1] She received a bachelor of arts degree from Smith College in 1958 and a master of arts degree from Harvard University in 1961.[1] On June 23, 1961, she married Colin Eisler, and together, they have one daughter.[1]
She is Jewish.[1]
Career
From 1975 to 1978, Eisler served as producer to WNET-TV, a public television station in New York City.[1] She has also "worked as an art editor, reporter, on-camera correspondent, and producer of arts programming for [public] television."[3]
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.[3]
