Alison Leslie Gold is an American

United States

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 author. She has written numerous books but is probably best known for her research about the Holocaust and Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

. She is the writer of the books Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family, which she wrote with Miep Gies

Miep Gies

Miep Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and several family friends in an attic annex above Anne's father's place of business from the Nazis during World War II...

, and Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend, which was based on the memories of Anne Frank's childhood friend, Hanneli Goslar

Hanneli Goslar

Hannah 'Hanneli' Elisabeth Goslar is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Both Hannah and Anne attended the Sixth Public Montessori School in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum....

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Biography

Gold was born and grew up in New York City

New York City

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. Gold was educated at the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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, Mexico City College

Mexico City College

Mexico City College was founded in 1940, as an English speaking junior college in Mexico City, Mexico.In 1946 the college switched to a 4 year Bachelor of Arts degree-awarding institution, then changed its name to University of the Americas in 1963 and in 1968 to Universidad de las Americas,...

 and the New School for Social Research in New York City. Gold has written a number of books of both non-fictional and fictional genres, and has also done journalism. She also writes for radio and television. Gold enjoys traveling and divides her time in Greece

Greece

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 and New York City.

Notable books written by Alison Leslie Gold

• Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family
• Love in the Second Act
• Fiet's Vase and Other Stories of Survival Europe 1939
• The Devil's Mistress: The Diary of Eva Braun: The Woman Who Lived and Died with Hitler : A Novel
• Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend
• Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce

Notable awards and nominations

• 1988- Won Christopher Award
  Christopher Award
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   for Anne Frank Remembered
• 1997- Nominated National Book Award
  National Book Award
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   for The Devil's Mistress
• 1998- Won the Notable Children's Book Award for Memories of Anne Frank

External links

• http://www.alisonlesliegold.com/alisonlesliegold/Home.html (the website of Alison Leslie Gold)