Muir is the daughter of the late Israeli-American inventor and author, Itzhak Bentov,[1] who died as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979.
A bestiary in novel form, featuring imaginary animals based on scientific facts, Invisible Beasts was named a Title to Pick Up Now in O, The Oprah Magazine,[4] as well as a Publishers Weekly Book of the Week[5] and a Top Indie Fiction Selection by Library Journal.
[7] Muir's memoir, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives, published by Random House/Schocken Books in 2005, was positively reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, by Kapka Kassabova, March 10, 2006; and in The Jerusalem Post, by Barbara Hollander, December 9, 2005.
The memoir received the 2007 Nancy Dasher Award for the best book in the creative writing category, from the College English Association of Ohio.
The memoir deals with Muir's search for the past of her scientist father, Itzhak Bentov.