Cheryl Benard
Cheryl Benard | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, researcher |
| Education | University of Vienna (PhD) American University of Beirut (BA) |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
| Spouse | Zalmay Khalilzad |
| Children | Alexander Benard Maximilian Benard |
Cheryl Benard (born 1953) is an American-Austrian writer, novelist and political-social scientist. She is the wife of Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander Benard and Maximilian Benard.