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Caroline Moorehead

OBE FRSL
Born
Caroline Mary Moorehead

(1944-10-28) 28 October 1944 (age 81)
London
Occupation
  • Biographer
  • historian
  • human rights journalist
  • literary critic
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of London
SubjectHuman rights
Relatives Alan Moorehead (father)

Caroline Mary Moorehead OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1944) is a human rights journalist and biographer. [1]

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Early life

Born in London, Moorehead is the daughter of Australian war correspondent Alan Moorehead and his English wife Lucy Milner. [2] She received a BA from the University of London in 1965. [3]

Writing

Moorehead has written eight biographies, of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn, Sidney Bernstein, Edda Mussolini, and Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet. The latter figure was the daughter-in-law of Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, who experienced the French Revolution and left a rich collection of letters as well as a memoir covering the decades from the fall of the Ancien Régime to the rise of Napoleon III.

Moorehead has also written many non-fiction pieces centered on human rights including a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Dunant's Dream, based on previously unseen archives in Geneva, Troublesome People, a book on pacifists, and a work on terrorism, Hostages to Fortune. A work in this category on refugees in the modern world, Human Cargo, was published in 2004. Moorehead has also published A Train in Winter, a book which focuses on 230 French women of the Resistance who were sent to Auschwitz, on Convoi des 31000, and of whom only forty-nine survived. [4] Her book Village of Secrets (2014) is on a similar theme, describing a story where a wartime French village helped 3,000 Jews to safety.

Moorehead has written many book reviews for assorted papers and reviews, including Literary Review , The Times Literary Supplement , Daily Telegraph , Independent, Spectator , and 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.

Appointments

She is a trustee and director of Index on Censorship and a governor of the British Institute of Human Rights. She has served on the committees of the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is a Fellow; the Society of Authors; English PEN; and the London Library. She also helped start a legal advice centre for asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in Cairo, where she helps run a number of educational projects.

Honours

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993. [5] She was appointed an OBE in 2005 for services to literature. [6]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Europa Publications, International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Psychology Press, 2003: ISBN   1-85743-179-0), p. 393.
  2. ↑ von Neuschatz, Delia (22 May 2012). "Interview with Caroline Moorehead, OBE, FRSL". New York Social Diary. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  3. ↑ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, p. 393.
  4. ↑ Mundow, Anna (28 June 2009). "Eyewitness to the Terror and Napoleon". The Boston Globe . Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  5. ↑ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  6. ↑ "Mayor welcomes Camden's honoured citizens". Borough of Camden. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
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