- Caroline Moorehead
Caroline Moorehead is a human rights journalist and biographer.
Biographical Work
Moorehead has written five biographies, of
Bertrand Russell ,Heinrich Schliemann ,Freya Stark ,Iris Origo , and most recently, the life ofMartha Gellhorn , the famouswar reporter and wife of novelistErnest Hemingway .Non-Fiction Books
Moorehead has also written a number of
non-fiction pieces centered on human rights including a history of the International Committee fo the Red Cross, Dunant's Dream, based on previously unseen archives inGeneva , Troublesome People, a book onpacifists , and a work onterrorism , Hostages to Fortune. Her most recent work is on refugees in the modern world named Human Cargo, published in 2004.Journalism
She has written many book reviews for assorted papers and reviews. These include 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.
Projects
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.
Resources
*http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com "Critical Mass"
*http://www.rlf.org.uk "Current Fellows: Caroline Moore"
*http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk "Current affairs: Human Cargo by Caroline Moorehead"
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