[9] Her 1967 book The Beautiful People chronicled several well-known names of the era and critiqued modern celebrity culture.
That same year, New York City department store Bergdorf Goodman used supersized images of the index pages from the book as a window display.
[10] Bender and her husband, Selig Altschul, were the authors of The Chosen Instrument, an acclaimed history of Pan American Airways and biography of its founder, Juan Trippe.
She married Selig Altschul, who was one of the leading financial advisors to the airline industry,[13][14] in 1959 and had a son, James Sloan, in 1960.
[15][16][10] Bender was elected to the New York Women in Communication's Matrix Hall of Fame in 1972 and received the Smith College Medal in 1978.