Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
Author Biography
Anne Isaacs was born in Buffalo,
New York, where she lived until she left for college. As a child, Anne
read constantly, selecting books such as Wind in the Willows and
Romeo and Juliet. Her favorite book was Little Women, and
she grew up to have a life much like the heroine Jo; maintaining a career as
an educator, a mother, and a children's book writer.
In 1967 Anne left Buffalo for the
University of Michigan where she received degrees in English Literature and
Environmental Education. Today she lives in the San Francisco Bay
area. The book Torn Thread is a fictional depiction of the life
of Anne's mother-in-law, Eva Buchbinder, as a young woman in a Nazi labor
cap in Czechoslovakia from 1943-1945.
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