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Katrin Schumann

Biography

Katrin Schumann

Katrin Schumann is the author of the Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller THE FORGOTTEN HOURS. Born in Freiburg, Germany, she lives in Boston and Key West. She is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar, teaches at GrubStreet in Boston, and was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing Program. Katrin has been granted numerous fiction residencies and is the author of several nonfiction books. Her work has been featured on "Today" and "Talk of the Nation," and in the London Times, among others. She studied languages at Oxford and journalism at Stanford.

Katrin Schumann

Books by Katrin Schumann

This Terrible Beauty
by Katrin Schumann - Fiction, Historical Fiction

World War II has ended, and Germany is torn apart. Longing for a family, Bettina Heilstrom marries Werner, an older bureaucrat who adores her. But after joining the fledgling secret police, he is drawn deep into its dark mission and becomes a dangerous man. When Bettina falls in love with an idealistic young renegade, Werner discovers her infidelity and forces her to make a terrible choice: spend her life in prison or leave her home forever. Ten years later, Bettina has reinvented herself as a celebrated photographer, but she’s never stopped yearning for the baby she left behind. Surprised by an unexpected visitor from her past, she resolves to return to her ravaged homeland to reclaim her daughter and uncover her beloved’s fate.