Elizabeth Dale Samet (born August 14, 1969) is an author of numerous books, essays, and reviews on United States military history.
Samet has been a Professor of English at West Point since 1997, an experience that has significantly shaped her work.
[1] Samet's autobiographical book Soldier's Heart describes her experience teaching literature at the United States Military Academy, or West Point, to soldiers preparing to fight a war.
In an interview with Dallas News, Samet noted that her interest in Ulysses S. Grant was what originally piqued her interest in teaching at West Point, as the military commander and president was a West Point alumnus.
[2] Her work explores the soldier's experience and the heartbreaking difficulties of losing her former students to war.