Edith Simon

Edith Simon

Edith Simon is an English author, sculptor and historian.

Born in Berlin, Germany, she learnt English at the age of 14 when her parents moved to Britain. She since then has written many fiction and non-fiction books.

Works

* "The Golden Hand"
* "The Great Forgery", Little Brown
* "The Making of Frederick the Great", Greenwood Press, England, 1977 ISBN-13: 978-0-8371-9440-0
* "Luther Alive"
* "The Saints", Penguin Books, London, 1968

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938289,00.html?iid=chix-sphere "A Genuine Fake", Book Review of The Great Forgery", Time Magazine, 1961]

German Edith Simon

another Edith Simon is a German author, who has worked as stewardess in the earliest days of Lufthansa. Born in Bremen, Germany, 1933 she took part with the first transatlantik flight. She wrote a book about her live, containing many inside-stories of the flight-live and meetings with prominents.

Publication

* "Ein Leben wie im Fluge" Synergia-Verlag, Darmstadt, 2007

external link to biografie in German language

* www.edith-simon.de [http://www.edith-simon.de/biografie.php]


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