Nationality British Role Journalist Name Caroline Moorehead | Subject Human rights | |
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Born Caroline Mary Moorehead 28 October 1944 (age 80) London ( 1944-10-28 ) Nominations Samuel Johnson Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Books Village of Secrets, A Train in Winter: An Extraordi, Human Cargo, Gellhorn, Iris Origo Similar People | ||
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Caroline Mary Moorehead OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1944) is a human rights journalist and biographer.
Contents
- What is Martha Gellhorns legacy
- Caroline moorehead village of secrets
- Early life
- Writing
- Appointments
- Honours
- Selected publications
- References
Caroline moorehead village of secrets
Early life
Born in London, Moorehead is the daughter of Australian war correspondent Alan Moorehead and his English wife Lucy Milner. She received a BA from the University of London in 1965.
Writing
Moorehead has written six biographies, of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn, Sidney Bernstein, and most recently, the life of Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, the daughter in law of Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin. She experienced the French Revolution and left a rich collection of letters as well as a memoir that cover the decades from the fall of the Ancien Régime up to the rise of Napoleon III.
Moorehead has also written a number of 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. Her most recent work in this category is on refugees in the modern world named Human Cargo, 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, and of whom only forty-nine survived. Her 2014 book Village of Secrets is on a similar theme, describing a story where a wartime French village helped 3,000 Jews to safety.
She has written many book reviews for assorted papers and reviews, including the TLS, Literary Review, 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. She was appointed an OBE in 2005 for services to literature.