The Diary of Anne Frank (Original text)

The Diary of Anne Frank (Original text)

The Diary of Anne Frank (Original text)

The Diary of Anne Frank (Original text)

The Diary of Anne Frank (Original text)

Overview

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday and twenty-two days before going into hiding with her parents, sister, and three other people. Hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam, Anne and the others cope with the day-to-day struggles of life in cramped quarters, as the spectre of tragedy looms, ever-present, over their every move.

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  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII

Authors

Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich (1891-1984) was born in Belleville, NJ and started in the theatre as an actress, making her debut with Ruth Chatterton in 1916 in Come Out of the Kitchen. She collaborated with Albert Hackett in writing the play Up Pops the Devil in 1930, and they married the ...

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Albert Hackett

Albert Hackett (1900-1995) made his New York stage debut as an actor as a little girl in Lottie, the Poor Saleslady in 1906. He appeared in productions of Peter Pan, Crime, Whoopee and The Nervous Wreck.

With Frances Goodrich, whom he married in 1931, he wrote the plays Brida ...

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