Tapestry Of My Mother’s Life: Stories, Fragments, And Silences

Malve von Hassell

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BIOGRAPHY
Malve von Hassell is a freelance writer, researcher, and translator. Working as an independent scholar, she published The Struggle for Eden: Community Gardens in New York City (Bergin & Garvey 2002) and Homesteading in New York City 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida (Bergin & Garvey 1996). She has also edited her grandfather Ulrich von Hassell's memoirs written in prison in 1944, Der Kreis schließt sich - Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft 1944 (Propylaen Verlag 1994). She has self-published a children’s picture book, Letters from the Tooth Fairy (Mill City Press, 2012) and her translation and annotation of a German children’s classic by Tamara Ramsay, Rennefarre: Dott’s Wonderful Travels and Adventures (Two Harbors Press, 2012). She has published The Falconer’s Apprentice (namelos, 2015) and Alina: A Song for the Telling (BHC Press, 2020), and The Amber Crane (Odyssey Press, 2021). Her most recent release was a biographical account of a woman coming of age in Germany during World War II, Tapestry of My Mother's Life: Stories, Fragments, and Silences (Next Chapter Publishing, 2021). Translated into German, it is now available under the title, Bildteppich eines Lebens: Erzaehlungen Meiner Mutter, Fragmente und Schweigen (Next Chapter Publishing, 2022). She is working on a trilogy about the life of Adela of Blois.