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Caroline Moorehead


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
October 28, 1944

Genre
Nonfiction


Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France; A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France; and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer, Moorehead has also written for the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times, and the Independent. She lives in London and Italy.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 16,482 ratings · 2,700 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors
A Train in Winter: An Extra...
3.85 avg rating — 8,100 ratings — published 2011 — 55 editions
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Village of Secrets: Defying...
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Dancing to the Precipice: L...
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Gellhorn: A Twentieth Centu...
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A House in the Mountains: T...
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Human Cargo: A Journey Amon...
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A Bold and Dangerous Family...
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Mussolini's Daughter: The M...
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Selected Letters
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“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than anyone in life and yet be driven mad by her presence,”
― Caroline Moorehead, Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
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“Martha had been struck by a line in a Doris Lessing novel—“I don’t enjoy pleasure”—and decided that what she enjoyed in life were surprises and work. “But it’s alarming,” she wrote to Teecher, “to grow less and less gregarious. I can hardly bear social occasions; I feel as if I’d written the script long ago.” While”
― Caroline Moorehead, Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
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“I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.”
― Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
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