Benfey published "Robert Burns Woodward. Architect and Artist in the World of Molecules" with co-editor Peter Morris in 2001. He continued to serve as editor at large of the "Chemical Heritage Magazine" until 2014. He gathered and published four volumes of "The Experience of War: Residents of Friends Homes Tell Their Stories" (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014). Rachel Benfey survived a stroke in 2005, and died on 22 September 2013.