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This new edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.
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ISBN-13: | 9781854595270 |
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Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
Publication date: | 05/01/2010 |
Series: | Nick Hern Books |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 96 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Diane Samuels was born in 1960 in Liverpool, England. She studied history at the University of Cambridge, then continued her training as a drama teacher at Goldsmith’s College in London. This led to teaching for five years in secondary schools in the city of London.
Since leaving the teaching profession, Diane Samuels has devoted herself to writing. Among her plays for adult audiences are Watch Out for Mister Stork and Chalk Circle. She has also written a number of children’s theatre plays, including Forever and Ever, One Hundred Million Footsteps, How to Beat a Giant, and The Bonekeeper which was short-listed for the W.H. Smith Award for plays for children. Diane Samuels resides in London with her husband, writer and journalist Simon Garfield, and their two sons.
Since leaving the teaching profession, Diane Samuels has devoted herself to writing. Among her plays for adult audiences are Watch Out for Mister Stork and Chalk Circle. She has also written a number of children’s theatre plays, including Forever and Ever, One Hundred Million Footsteps, How to Beat a Giant, and The Bonekeeper which was short-listed for the W.H. Smith Award for plays for children. Diane Samuels resides in London with her husband, writer and journalist Simon Garfield, and their two sons.
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