Caroline Moorehead
Auteur de A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
A propos de l'auteur
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Her books include Human Cargo: A Journey among Refugees, Dancing to the Precipice, A Train in Winter, and Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. (Bowker Author Biography)
Séries
Œuvres de Caroline Moorehead
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (2011) 1,015 exemplaires
Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era (2009) 242 exemplaires
Namibia: Apartheid's Forgotten Children 1 exemplaire
A Guide to Human Rights 1 exemplaire
'The Best of the Bonapartes' in NYRB 58/16, 27 Oct 2011 [review of Simonetta & Arikha's 'Napoleon and the Rebel: a… 1 exemplaire
Freya Stark Letters, Volume Eight: Traveller's Epilogue 1960-80 (1982) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (2019) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 268 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Moorehead, Caroline
- Date de naissance
- 1944-10-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- University of London (BA|1965)
- Professions
- journalist
biographer
journalist
human rights advocate
book reviewer - Organisations
- Index on Censorship
British Institute of Human Rights
Royal Society of Literature
Society of Authors
English PEN
London Library - Prix et distinctions
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 2005)
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow) - Courte biographie
- Caroline Moorehead was born in London and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of London in 1965. She is has written biographies of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn, and aristocrat Lucie de la Tour du Pin. She also has written a number of nonfiction pieces centered on human rights, including a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross. She began a trilogy of books on the French Resistance in World War II with A Train in Winter (2011) which focuses on 230 French women of the Resistance sent to Auschwitz. Village of Secrets (2014) describes a wartime French village that helped 3,000 Jews to safety.
She has also written book reviews for various newspapers and reviews, including the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, and The New York Review of Books. She specialized in human rights as a journalist, contributing a column first to the Times and then the Independent, and co-producing and writing a series of programs on human rights for BBC television.
She has served on the committees of the Royal Society of Literature, of which she was elected a Fellow in 1993; the Society of Authors; English PEN; and the London Library. She was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2005.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 2,963
- Popularité
- #8,611
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 87
- ISBN
- 167
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 2