Jeff Benedict is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of 17 non-fiction books and more than 100 published stories and essays. He is also an Emmy-winning film and television producer.
Jeff spent five years inside the New England Patriots organization and was granted extensive personal access to Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft. During that time, he wrote The Dynasty: The New England Patriots, an instant New York Times bestseller that Colin Cowherd called “a masterpiece” and Peter King called “groundbreaking.” His book is the definitive account of the Brady-Belichick-Kraft era. The book is also the basis of the 10-part documentary The Dynasty: The New England Patriots that Benedict wrote and executive produced for Apple TV+. It is currently streaming.
A former special features writer for Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times, Jeff penned the landmark biographies of Tiger Woods in 2018, and LeBron James in 2023. The New York Times praised Jeff’s book about Tiger as “a big American story … that’s nearly as sleek as a Christopher Nolan movie.” The Wall Street Journal called his portrait of LeBron “inspiring and absorbing,” while the Los Angeles Times hailed it as “a sports opera fueled by drama and emotion.” Both books were published in over 15 foreign languages. Jeff also turned his Tiger Woods biography into a two-part documentary that he produced for HBO.
In 2024, Jeff won an Emmy for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary as the producer and writer of the Netflix film Poisoned, which is based on his book by the same title about a deadly E. coli outbreak. He is a frequent public speaker on the themes of leadership and success, as well as the art of storytelling.