Elizabeth Samet

Elizabeth Samet is a published author of numerous books, essays, and reviews on United States military history.

Biography
Samet has been a Professor of English at West Point since 1997, an experience that has significantly shaped her work. Samet earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Yale and her B.A. from Harvard University. She is the recipient of multiple awards and honors for her work.

Samet's autobiographical book Soldier's Heart describes her experience teaching literature to soldiers preparing to fight a war at the United States Military Academy, or West Point. In an interview with Dallas News Samet noted that her interest in Ulysses S. Grant was what originally piqued her interest in teaching at West Point, as the military commander and president was a West Point alumnus. Her work explores the soldier's experience and the heartbreaking difficulties of losing her former students to war. She also seeks to make a connection between the civilian experience and that of those in the military.

She frequently writes for The New Republic and Bloomberg's publications.

Awards

 * 2012 Hiett Prize in the Humanities
 * 2012 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow