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Heather Morris (born 1953) is a New Zealand author who lives in Australia. Her 2018 debut novel was The Tattooist of Auschwitz . Early life and family [ edit ]
My latest novel, Sisters under the Rising Sun, tells the story of a group of women from Australia, England, the Netherlands and beyond, who were captured by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942 and held in brutal conditions in a camp in the Indonesian jungle. Based mainly upon the real-life experiences of Australian nurse Sister Nesta James and ...
Publication place. New Zealand. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp. [1] The story is based on the real lives of Sokolov ...
About Heather. I was born in 1953 in Te Awamutu, a small rural town in the middle of the New Zealand’s North Island. I had an older brother, then three more boys followed. My childhood was spent in the even smaller village of Pirongia, with four generations of my family living within close proximity of one another.
Heather Morris is a New Zealand born Australian based author of historical fiction novels. For years, Heather studied and wrote screenplays. In 2003, the author met Lale Sokolov and their friendship forever transformed Heather Morris life and led her to publish her debut novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
