Sheila Isenberg is currently writing Muriel's War, a biography of American heiress and World War II heroine Muriel Gardiner, to be published in December 2010 by Palgrave.
High school English where I read A Tale of Two Cities, the book that made me want to write
A lonely childhood that taught me to read for escape, pleasure, and learning
Daily newspaper reporting where I learned to write on deadline and accurately
The women's movement - like being reborn
My favorite authors? Graham Greene and a thousand others
Muriel Gardiner was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone with her beauty, intelligence, and courage. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago high society and a dynasty of millionaire meatpackers, to the Austrian resistance during the 1930. From Wellesley College and Oxford University, to a career as an eminent psychoanalyst. From a determination to live life fully, to the saving ...
Muriel Gardiner was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone with her beauty, intelligence, sensuality, and courage. Her adventurous life led her from a Chicago meatpacking dynasty and an early life in high society, to the Austrian resistance during the 1930. From Wellesley College and Oxford University to a role in the Revolutionary Socialists who resisted Hitler's invasion of Austria in ...
Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance -- a biography of Muriel Gardiner -- will to be published in December by Palgrave. "Whether Hellman’s 'Julia' existed or not, there was an American heiress who bravely resisted the Nazis in Austria. She managed to escape. Her name was Muriel Gardiner. She never met Lillian Hellman."
