Caroline Moorehead

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Caroline Moorehead , OBE FRSL, (born October 28, 1944 in London ) is a British writer and human rights activist.

Life

Caroline Moorehead is the daughter of the writer Alan Moorehead and the journalist Lucy Milner (1908–1979). She grew up mainly in Italy. She studied at the Sorbonne and the University of London and graduated in 1965 with a BA. In 1967 she married the British journalist Jeremy Smith in Porto Ercole .

Moorehead has written several biographies, on Bertrand Russell , Heinrich Schliemann , Freya Stark , Iris Origo , Martha Gellhorn and on the Marquise Henriette-Lucy de La Tour du Pin-Gouvernet , the daughter of Arthur Dillon . She wrote nonfiction books about the Red Cross, about pacifists and about terrorists. Her book A Train in Winter is about the deportation of 230 female Resistance fighters to Auschwitz , among them Charlotte Delbo . The book Village of Secrets is about the rescue of 3,000 Jews from National Socialist persecution in the Cevennes , and it was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014 .

Moorehead writes book reviews that are printed in the leading English language newspapers. Her journalistic contributions often focus on human rights. She herself was an activist in Cairo and she made several films on the subject of human rights for the BBC . She supports the Index on Censorship organization .

In 1993 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . In 2005 she received the officer rank of the Order of the British Empire .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hostages to Fortune: A Study of Kidnapping in the World Today . New York: Atheneum, 1980
  • Sidney Bernstein : A Biography . London: J. Cape, 1984
  • Freya Stark . New York: Viking, 1986
  • Troublesome People: Enemies of War: 1916-1986 . London: Hamilton, 1987
  • Betrayal: A Report on Violence Toward Children in Today's World . New York: Doubleday, 1990
  • Bertrand Russell : A Life . New York: Viking, 1992
  • Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away . New York: Viking, 1996
  • Dunant's dream: War, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross. HarperCollins, London 1998
  • Iris Origo, Marchesa di Val d'Orcia . London: John Murray, 2000
  • Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life . New York: H. Holt, 2003. ISBN 0805065539
  • Martha Gellhorn : Selected Letters. German by Miriam Mandelkow. Published by Caroline Moorehead. With an afterword by Sigrid Löffler . Zurich: Dörlemann, 2009
  • Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees . New York: H. Holt, 2005. ISBN 0805074430
  • Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era. HarperCollins, 2009 Costa Book Awards shortlist
  • A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France . London: Chatto & Windus, 2011
  • Village of secrets. Defying the Nazis in Vichy France . London: Vintage, 2015
  • A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini . London: Chatto and Windus, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucy Hughes-Hallett : A Bold and Dangerous Family by Caroline Moorehead review - anti-fascist heroes , review, in: The Guardian , June 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moorehead, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH London