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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: 4.03 · 19,054 ratings · 2,955 reviews · 46 distinct works � Similar authors
A Train in Winter (The Resi...
3.85 avg rating — 8,665 ratings — published 2011 — 52 editions
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Village of Secrets (The Res...
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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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Mussolini's Daughter: The M...
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A Bold and Dangerous Family...
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Human Cargo: A Journey Amon...
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Selected Letters
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val...
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A Train in Winter Village of Secrets A Bold and Dangerous Family A House in the Mountains
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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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“Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha”
― 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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