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Gwen Strauss

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in Deschappelles, Haiti

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Gwen Strauss is an award-winning children’s book author and poet, whose titles include Trail of Stones, The Night Shimmy, Ruth and the Green Book, and The Hiding Game. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in numerous places including The New Republic, New England Review, Kenyon Review, London Sunday Times and Catapult. Her forthcoming adult non-fiction book, The Nine will be released in eight countries in 2021 and is currently in development for a TV series. She lives in Southern France where she works as the Director of the Dora Maar House, an artist residency program.

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	The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany 4.25 avg rating — 8,939 ratings — published 2021 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Floyd Cooper (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 2,500 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors by Terri Windling (editor), Kara Dalkey, Ellen Steiber 4.15 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Rachel Simon (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück 4.28 avg rating — 120 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Shimmy 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1991 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hiding Game by Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Herb Leonhard (Illustrator) 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss (Goodreads Author), Anthony Browne 3.49 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De negen van Ravensbrück 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My beloved dog Zola passed away on March 11, 2023.

I wanted to write about him, or post something, but for a while I just couldn't. We had our routine. I would walk with him and our other dog, Bucket, and the neighbor's dog, Mao—the three of them each morning with my coffee. The sight of them chasing each other across the field through the morning mist brought me immeasurable joy. No matter the ni

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City of Incurable Women

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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

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Gwen Strauss answered Ralph Cann's question: When will the TV series be ready? Where will it appear? Netflix? Really enjoyed "The Nine". An important read. Would love to see it as required reading for high school students. Thank you! It is under option and fingers crossed the wonderful producers will find the funding and interest to make a series. I wish that would happen too!
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“US forces executed twenty-nine soldiers for rape, and twenty-five of them were African American. The executed soldiers, mostly Blacks, would be hung, as in a lynching, and this posed a problem in the land of the guillotine. A hangman was brought from Texas just to carry out the job.”
― Gwen Strauss, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

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“Lise London, one of the résistantes in the same transport, remembered the moment in her memoir and, quoting Rabelais, she wrote, “Le rire est bien le propre de l’homme” (Laughter is a human trait).12 With laughter and song they would hold on to their humanity and fight back.”
― Gwen Strauss, The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

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