Lucette Lagnado (1956–2019)
Författare till Eldens barn : sanningen om doktor Josef Mengele och tvillingarna i Auschwitz
Om författaren
Lucette Lagnado is the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. She is a senior special writer and investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She resides with her husband, Douglas Feiden, in Sag Harbor and New York City
Verk av Lucette Lagnado
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn (2011) 111 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Lagnado, Lucette
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Födelsedag
- 1956-09-19
- Avled
- 2019-07-10
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Egypt (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Födelseort
- Cairo, Egypt
- Dödsort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Hodgkin's Disease
- Bostadsorter
- Paris, France
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Sag Harbor, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Vassar College (BA|1977 - English and French Literature)
New Utrecht High School - Yrken
- journalist
editor
author
memoirist - Relationer
- Feiden, Douglas (spouse)
Anderson, Jack (co-writer #1) - Organisationer
- The Wall Street Journal
New York Post
Village Voice
Brooklyn Spectator
The Forward - Priser och utmärkelser
- Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (2008)
Mike Berger Award (2002)
Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Awards (3x)
New York Press Club Heart of New York award (2001)
Big Apple Journalism Award (2001)
Laurel Award (2003) (visa alla 7)
New York Press Club Award (2x) - Agent
- Tracy Brown
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the… av Lucette Matalon Lagnado
The authors do a really good job exploring the life of Dr. Mengele with the twins he tortured while in the camps. This book does not hold back on what we’re done to them at such a young age and the ramifications it had on their entire lives. Really broke my heart reading this.
Lucette Lagnado’s second memoir that mainly deals with her mother left me cold. With the scarcity of dialogue, the book becomes a series of “telling” episodes rather than “showing”, causing the reader to feel distanced. Too much ground was covered between the sections about growing up as a Jewish child in Cairo along with illnesses of the writer and both her parents and adjusting to their immigration to America. Despite an attempt to tie things together at the end, the title The Arrogant Years never gets satisfactorily explained.… (mer)
Interesting, sad, but a little too long and detailed for my taste.
I'm not sure why I'm not giving this five stars but it's a pretty terrific read, an interesting story about a Jewish family from Egypt, their life there and their life as immigrants. I found Lucette to be likeable if not really relatable, and her family's story is another tile in the mosaic of the Jewish diaspora. She is a very good writer and kept me turning the pages.
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- 4
- Medlemmar
- 1,230
- Popularitet
- #20,872
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 41
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