Heather Morris
In 2018, The Tattooist of Auschwitz was released in the United Kingdom and Australia. Since then, Heather Morris travles and speaks to groups, at events, and at corporate functions. She has spoken at more than one hundred events to various audiences. From twenty individuals in a nursing home, three hundred at the Holocaust Center in New York, to a thousand eager attendees at the Perth Writers’ Festival, Heather enjoys every occasion.
When telling stories based on true events, fictionalizing, creating, and weaving the facts with fiction is a powerful tool for keeping stories alive. The Tattooist of Auschwitz has given hope to many readers at a time it was needed and is now a mini series on Peacock.
Heather Morris touches on the importance of finding and telling difficult stories and the rewards that can follow. Speaking on topics dear to her heart enables her to adapt to the audience in front of her. At schools, she engages the students in an informal chat. She invites them to interrupt her instead of waiting until question time for clarification. Heather asks the audience how many of them have read her books. Based on such, she will judge how much of the story to talk about. Or she switches to talking about how she got the story and who were Cilka and Lale (the tattooist).
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story.
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
In the midst of World Wa...Read More
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story.
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
In the midst of World War II, an Engli...Read More
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From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story.
Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death...Read More
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From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others.
In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener—a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It...Read More
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From Heather Morris, the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, comes a engrossing novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience.
Her beauty saved her—and condemned her.
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, whe...Read More
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From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story.
Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death...Read More
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller • Now a Peacock Original Series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love s...Read More
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather discusses the story of Lale Sokolov and his role as the Tattooist in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, and the young girl whose arm he held, stabbed numbers into her skin, and fell in love with.
Cilka’s Journey
Heather discusses the story of a young girl who survived nearly three years in Auschwitz only to be accused of sleeping with the enemy and to be imprisoned for a further ten years in a Siberian Gulag.
If We Just Listen
Based on Heather’s life experiences of listening to people with powerful stories.
Hope is the Last Thing to Die
Hope can be found; hope can find us. Without knowing it, like love, hope is all around us. Heather discusses how The Tattooist of Auschwitz has given hope to many readers at a time it was needed.
Where to Find Stories
Heather shares the importance of finding and telling difficult stories and the rewards that can follow.
Writing Fictionalized Stories of Real Events/People
Heather shares how, when telling stories based on true events, fictionalizing, creating and weaving the facts with fiction is a powerful tool for making the reader turn the page.
“Laura Bush Book Club with “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” Author Heather Morris”
“These Heather Morris Books Are Must-Reads After Binging The Tattooist of Auschwitz”
“Tattooist of Auschwitz hits million copy milestone”
Check out Publisher’s Weekly review of Cilka’s Journey.
“The Incredible Story of Love and Survival at Auschwitz”
“‘Stealing moments, stealing time’: the love story that started with a tattoo in a death camp”
“Heather Morris: The impossible love story of the “Tattooist of Auschwitz”, in the Death Camp.”
Follow Heather’s page on Facebook and check out her personal website.
Praise for Three Sisters
Three Sisters … takes readers on an emotional roller coaster … As fascinating as the novel is, the story of how Morris came to discover the women whom she based her plot around is equally compelling.
— Hadassah Magazine“Livia, Cibi and Magda promise their dying father they’ll stick together—a vow later tested at Auschwitz, on a so-called death march, and in the postwar era. A stunning novel based on the true story of sisters acquainted with the real-life subjects of Morris’s 2018 bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”
— PEOPLE“Morris (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) follows the real-life Meller sisters, who all survived imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau and a winter death march during WWII, in her extraordinary latest. Morris skillfully chronicles the lives of the sisters from childhood to old age, balancing fictional invention with extensive research and immersion into the Mellers’ lives. Readers will be greatly inspired by this story of resilience.”
— Publisher’s Weekly, starred reviewPraise for Cilka’s Journey
“Cilka’s Journey gives a memorable portrait of the minutiae of women’s lives in the gulag. Morris has a fine eye for the way they managed their meagre food supplies, pulled threads from their bedding to use in sewing, or strips from blankets to make eye masks so they could sleep in the White Nights, when the sun never set —and even helped each other give birth.”
— The Jewish Chronicle“[An] incredible story of bravery and love.”
— Library Journal, starred review“In the stirring follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Morris tells the story of a woman who survives Auschwitz, only to find herself locked away again. Morris’s propulsive tale shows the goodness that can be found even inside the gulag.”
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