Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1969-70
• Education—B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D. Yale University
• Currently—lives in New York, New York
Elizabeth D. Samet earned her BA from Harvard and her PhD in English literature from Yale. An English professor at West Point, she has written about authority, democracy, and the relationship between literature and leadership in the military world. (From the publisher.)
Extras
From a 2008 Barnes & Noble interview:
• My first job— if you don't count a long list of part-time and summer jobs such as cleaning pools and tennis courts, working in a bookstore, teaching unhappy day-campers how to sail, and extracting DNA from corn plants in a genetics lab —is my current job: teaching English. It is one I greatly love.
• When ased what book most influenced her life as a writer, here is what she said:
A "most" question is almost impossible to answer, but certainly no work has influenced me more than Hamlet. Shakespeare's play helped me to grow as a reader and altered my worldview by revealing a character unafraid to think until it hurt. Hamlet offers insights into the nature of seeming and being, the dynamic of thought and action, the relationship between self and world. Many of the problems it dramatizes have long preoccupied me; they also seem to be of great moment to my students. Moreover, Hamlet—and maybe this is the true source of the influence—is a work that seems somehow to change, to yield new ideas, each time I read it. (Author interview from Barnes & Noble.)