TIMOTHY B. BENFORD is a best-selling author, award-winning novelist, and prolific magazine writer. His feature articles have appeared in more than a hundred publications worldwide. To contact him directly email: TimothyBenford@aol.com

The listing of his magazine features which appears below this (PLEASE SCROLL DOWN) is a work in progress. Additional articles from his files are being added weekly.

The current Benford articles on this site covers such topics as: history; antiques; collecting; fuel economy; classic cars; theater reviews; travel destinations; earth science; law; business; investing; Judaism; cultures; and trivia.

Meanwhile, his latest book is TO KILL A PRINCESS, THE DIANA PLOT (ISBN 097105603x). It is a crtically aclaimed and thrilling adventure novel mixing fact and fiction and raising the question: an accident or murder?

He has successfully written books in three genres: fiction; non-fiction; and true-crime. In addition to the English language editions, his books have been published overseas in French, Spanish, and Polish.

To learn more about his books, keystroke in TIMOTHY B. BENFORD on Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com and a large selection of them will come up. Be sure to read the reviews.

For two excellent reviews of TO KILL A PRINCESS, THE DIANA PLOT, go to www.MyShelf.com and www.TheRoyalist.com, then navigate to their book reviews.

Parts of the biographical information below were excerpted from a luncheon introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning author James A. Michener some years ago, and have been updated.

JAMES MICHENER SAID:
My good friend and fellow author Tim Benford is a former newspaper and magazine editor and a founding member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA), a director of the Working Press Association (WPA) and a past president of the North Jersey Press Association. He was inducted into the Bayonne Writers Academy Hall of Fame in 1994 and has won numerous journalism awards for his writing.

He began his career with The Bayonne Times and over the years worked locally for The Jersey Journal; The Bergen Record; The Asbury Park Press; The Daily Journal.

Tim's byline has appeared in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia, including: The New York Times; The New York Post; Denver Post; Hartford Courant; Travel & Leisure; American Legion; Columbia; Caribbean Travel & Life; Car Collector; Coin World and more than a hundred publications.

Tim's Pearl Harbor Amazing Facts! was published in 2001 in time for the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on December 7. It continues to have robust sales at the USS Arizona and USS Missouri Memorial gift shops in Hawaii as well as on Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com.

His World War II Flashback is a non-fiction hardcover which commemorated the 50th anniversary of this country's entry in the war. Published by Longmeadow Press, it became a best-seller less than a week after publication.

Righteous Carnage, the true-crime story about the tragic List family murders, was published in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. by Charles Scribner's. Foreign rights were purchased for editions published in France, Spain and Argentina.

Benford's first novel, Hitler's Daughter, won the West Coast Review of Books "Porgie" as one of the top three paperbacks of the year. It was made into a two-hour television Movie-of-The-Week.

His second novel, The Ardennes Tapes, a wartime horror story, was compared to the works of Stephen King. Both novels were also published in Poland.

Material from four of his books on World War II; the Space Program; and the British Royal Family, appears in various board and computer games and most recently on CD-Rom.

Tim Benford attended Rutgers University, was elected to two terms as a councilman, served as police commissioner in Mountainside, and a legislative aide in the New Jersey General Assembly.

He is married to the former Marilyn Fabula, his Bayonne High School sweetheart from the Class of 1959. They are the parents of two adult children, Susan Benford-Jung and Timothy III.

Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality (Other) Psychics and the death of Princess Diana

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In the decade since the car crash in a Paris tunnel that took the life of Princess Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes, a handful of so-called psychics have claimed they predicted the tragedy. As expected, the media has ignored ad dismissed nearly all of them as screwballs or people seeking publicity by being associated with the worldwide interest in Diana.

For the most part these wannabe-psychics have been unable to provide documentation or public pronouncements which were on record before the tragic events of that Friday night and early Saturday morning in A...

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