Edith Milton
Author of The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
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- Milton, Edith
- Birthdate
- 1932
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Germany (birth)
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- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Places of residence
- Francetown, New Hampshire, USA
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- novelist
freelance writer
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- Edith Milton, née Cohn, was born to a Jewish family in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1939, on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, the seven-year-old and her sister Ruth were rescued from Germany on a Kindertransport, the train convoy that gave refuge to some 10,000 Jewish children in England. The two girls were sheltered by a British foster family with whom they lived for the next seven years. Edith later emigrated to the USA and became a freelance writer and novelist living in California and New Hampshire. Her writing has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, and Boston Globe. She is the author of the 1968 novel Corridors. Edith chronicled her childhood experiences in The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English, published in 2005.
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The story is entertainingly told and may be one of my best books of the year as well as a quick and easy read. Not a "just the facts" recitation but told as the memories would naturally surface with a digression here and there and a bit about how the adult Edith came to interpret her memories. She also carefully points out how unreliable some memories can be after so many decades.
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