Writers Retreat in Tuscany

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Wendy Holden

Respected journalist and war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph

WENDY HOLDEN was a respected journalist and war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, covering news stories around the world. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is the author of more than forty non-fiction books featuring inspirational men and women. They include the bestselling ghosted memoirs of Cher, Goldie Hawn, and Barbara Sinatra.

Her bestselling WWII books include The Teacher of Auschwitz, based on the true story of a young, gay German prisoner who created a children’s school in Auschwitz. She also wrote Born Survivors, published in twenty-four countries, about three young mothers who hid their pregnancies from the Nazis, and the UK No.1 bestseller Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day, the memoir of British centenarian Captain Sir Tom Moore, which won a Neilsen award for more than 350,000 hardback sales.

One Hundred Miracles, the memoir of musical prodigy Zuzana Ruzickova who survived three concentration camps, was made into a documentary, and Tomorrow to Be Brave, about the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, has been optioned for film. She wrote Behind Enemy Lines featuring a French Jewish spy, made into a short, A Woman of Firsts, the memoir of the ‘Muslim Mother Teresa,’ in development for a movie, and I Give You My Heart, about a Polish couple who hid a Jewish child. Wendy is a public speaker, podcaster, and a book doctor who teaches creative writing around the world. She is also her own agent. Her first novel, The Sense of Paper, was published by Random House, New York in 2006. Her second, The Cruelty of Beauty, is to be made into a European film. She is currently working on the first ever authorized biography of Audrey Hepburn with the star’s son. She lives on a small farm in Suffolk, England with her husband and two dogs, and is a passionate swimmer, gardener, and cook.