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Gwen Strauss

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in Deschappelles, Haiti

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Gwen Strauss is an award-winning children’s book author and poet, whose titles include Trail of Stones, The Night Shimmy, Ruth and the Green Book, and The Hiding Game. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in numerous places including The New Republic, New England Review, Kenyon Review, London Sunday Times and Catapult. Her forthcoming adult non-fiction book, The Nine will be released in eight countries in 2021 and is currently in development for a TV series. She lives in Southern France where she works as the Director of the Dora Maar House, an artist residency program.

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Average rating: 4.27 · 5,960 ratings · 1,117 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany 4.28 avg rating — 2,802 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 2,379 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors by Terri Windling (editor), Kara Dalkey, Ellen Steiber 4.14 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Rachel Simon 4.01 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Not a Confession by David Olimpio (Goodreads Author), Andrew Lang (Contributor), Anne Sexton (Contributor) 4.78 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Shimmy 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hiding Game by Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Herb Leonhard (Illustrations) 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Anthony Browne (Illustrator) 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le nove donne di Ravensbrück 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CoArt: Dora Maar House / Provence Academy by Christoph Klütsch, Daniel Plettenberg (Editor), Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

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Gwen Strauss answered a question about The Nine: Does anyone have book club questions for The Nine by Gwen Strauss? I can send you book club questions I developed with my editor. You ask some good questions. I think it is important to write and tell these stories carefully without glorifying violence. Not speaking about them would be worse. The most difficult part See Full Answer
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Gwen Strauss rated a book it was amazing The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
One of my all-time favorites. I think it is about Haiti, or an island a lot like Haiti. And this is a novel that shows how "helping" or aid organizations more often than not do not help-- they damage. Beautifully written, funny and heartbreaking. ...more
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“US forces executed twenty-nine soldiers for rape, and twenty-five of them were African American. The executed soldiers, mostly Blacks, would be hung, as in a lynching, and this posed a problem in the land of the guillotine. A hangman was brought from Texas just to carry out the job.”
― Gwen Strauss, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

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“Marceline Loridan-Ivens reported that upon her return from Auschwitz one of the first questions her mother asked her in a whisper was whether she was still pure and could still be married. “She understood nothing. We were not women, we were not men, there. We were dirty Jews, things, stinking animals. They made us strip only to determine when to kill us.”11”
― Gwen Strauss, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

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“But sharing the memory of a meal allowed the women to feel human without it hurting too much. Recipes were a link to the real world, to their lives before, and to their lives in the future. And they formed a link with the other groups in the camp. Everyone eats. Everyone has a favorite meal. Not everyone can write a song or poem, but to remember a good meal is universal.”
― Gwen Strauss, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

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