Melissa Muller is an Austrian-born journalist and author, whose other books include A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, written with Reinhard Piechocki, and Until the Final Hour, which describes Traudl Junge's life and her experiences as Hitler's last private secretary, and was a major source for the movie Downfall. Her original edition of Anne Frank: The Biography, informed the Emmy Award-winning adaptation, Anne Frank.
Definitive * <i><b>Choice Magazine</i></b> * Sensitive, serious and scrupulous * <B><I>Sunday Telegraph</I> on <I>Anne Frank: A Biography</I> (first edition)</B> * A well-written account, with a strong narrative and a seamless meshing of biographical and historical detail * <I><B>Times Educational Supplement</I></B> * The style of the book builds the tension and colours in an almost cinematic way, in particular evoking Anne's physical presence, from girlish selfishness through the frustrations of puberty to a deepening spirituality, so the sense of what was list with this one life is acute ... Required reading for anyone who insists on believing that, in the face of facts, life could indeed be beautiful * <I><B>Irish Independent</B></I> * Valuable ... Places the Frank story on a broader historical canvas ... Charting anti-Semitic persecution in Holland and comparing the Franks' experience with that of other Dutch Jews at the time * <B><I>Independent on Sunday</B></I> *