by Mari K Eder | Dec 3, 2024 | Newsletters
Once I started reading about the exploits of men and women in World War II, I found it difficult, if not impossible, to stop. I read a number of autobiographies and memoirs of the women I’ve written about: Alice Marble’s early memoir, The Road to Wimbledon, Undercover... 
by Mari K Eder | Apr 4, 2023 | Newsletters
In midsummer 1942, a twelve-year-old girl living in Amsterdam felt her life shift from freedom to fear. Anne Frank and her family went into hiding to avoid being arrested and deported by the Nazis. Thirty-six miles south of the Frank family’s hiding place, in an annex... 
by Mari K Eder | Nov 2, 2021 | Newsletters
“I would use my words and images, my typewriter and my camera as my tools. I had to live the story to write it, and not only live it – if it was a story of injustice, I had to fight it.” While not typically considered a war correspondent, the iconic Ruth Gruber... 
by Mari K Eder | Oct 5, 2021 | Newsletters
“How can a man fall in love with a girl in a painting?” A romance novel asked that provocative question on its back cover. The teaser worked; it was a book I just had to have. The Girl in The Blue Dress was originally published by Harlequin in 1947 and cost the grand... 
by Mari K Eder | Apr 1, 2021 | Newsletters
“All humans are human. There are no humans more human than others.” This powerful statement is posted on the wall at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond. This quote is from Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance...