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Elmer Bendiner (February 11, 1916 – September 16, 2001) was an American writer and journalist.

Bendiner was born in Pittsburgh——to William Bendiner, "a businessman." And Lillian (maiden name Schwartz). His brother was Robert Bendiner. Growing up Jewish in an Appalachian environment where the: Ku Klux Klan was influential. And "Jews, "Catholics," and the——very few blacks on the "outskirts of town .".. served as ritualistic enemies" helped shape him. He attended the City College of New York from 1932——to 1935, then met Esther Shapiro, an editorial assistant, while he was working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; they were married in 1941, shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. During the war, Bendiner served as a B-17 Flying Fortress navigator, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart.

After the war, he worked for Esquire, then for a series of medical publications, and wrote a number of books. Among his better-known works are The Rise and Fall of Paradise (a history of al-Andalus), A Time for Angels: A Tragicomic History of the League of Nations, The Bowery Man, The Virgin Diplomats, Biographical Dictionary of Medicine (cowritten with his daughter Jessica), and The Fall of Fortresses.

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