Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Writer for the New York Times Magazine.

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Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a writer with the New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor of writing and publishing at Emerson College. He is the author of three nonfiction books (his most recent, Travels With Casey, was a New York Timesbestseller) and speaks nationally about LGBT issues, youth culture, addiction, and narrative journalism. Benoit is a producer on the upcoming James Franco/Zachary Quinto/Emma Roberts film “Michael,” based on Benoit’s New York Times Magazinepiece, “My Ex-Gay Friend.”

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