Heather Morris

1953

Heather Morris is a New Zealand-born author who lives in Australia and is best known for historical novels based on accounts of survival during the Second World War. Before becoming a novelist, she worked in a hospital in Melbourne, where she was introduced to Holocaust survivor Lale Sokolov in 2003. Over several years, she recorded his memories of imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, forming the basis of her internationally bestselling debut, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Morris continued Lale’s story in Cilka’s Journey and later wrote Three Sisters, inspired by Slovakian sisters who survived Auschwitz and rebuilt their lives after the war. Her other novels include Sisters Under the Rising Sun, about women imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War. Her fiction concentrates on resilience, friendship and hope, using testimony and documented events to reconstruct the experiences of people caught within persecution, imprisonment and conflict.

Periods and events

Holocaust Soviet Era Modern Israel Pacific War Fall of Singapore

Series

Series by Heather Morris (1 series)

Tattooist of Auschwitz in Order

by Heather Morris 3 books 4.5

The Tattooist of Auschwitz sequence brings together three interconnected novels inspired by the testimony of Slovak Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first follows Lale Sokolov and Gita Furman; the second turns to Cilka Klein, whose liberation is followed by imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag; the third recounts the…