Author Info
“Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn’t enough; there must also be understanding.”
Elsie Lincoln Benedict was born in Alton, Osborne County, Kansas on November 2, 1885. She was the oldest of six children born to William and Adela Vandegrift and during the 1920's became a celebrated author, woman suffragist, human analyst and lecturer on psychology. Her family had moved out to Colorado in the mid 1890's. She had married Ralph Paine Benedict (the co writer of the book) on November 1, 1914 in Denver, Colorado. Elise was a outgoing person that put her self on a pedestal where ever they went. She had an excellent record so she was praised and recognized by her readers must of the time. When she spoke in 1920 on her book "How to analyze people on sight" hundreds of people where tuned in and even more where there when she had spoke at the city Auditorium in Milwaukee. Elsie ended up being the author of seven books that where all nationally known. Unfortunately her husband Ralph Benedict died in 1941, overwhelmed she stopped going public and died later on the day of February 15, 1970.