![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of those features-the story of Holocaust-survivor-turned-philanthropist Henri Landwirth (whom both Walter Cronkite and John Glenn told Kristin was the most amazing person they’d ever known)-partially inspired Kristin’s 2012 novel, The Sweetness of Forgetting, which was a bestseller all over the world. A finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award, The Book of Lost Names was an instant New York Times bestseller. After her father, a Polish Jew, is arrested, graduate student Eva Traube Abrams and her mother manage to escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Her favorite stories at PEOPLE, however, were the “Heroes Among Us” features-tales of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Inspired by a true story, The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel, is a poignant and emotional World War II tale. ![]() After stints covering health and lifestyle for American Baby, Men’s Health, and Woman’s Day, she became a reporter for PEOPLE magazine while still in college and spent more than a decade working for the publication, covering everything from the Super Bowl to high-profile murders to celebrity interviews with the likes of Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, OutKast, Justin Timberlake, and Patrick Dempsey. A former reporter for PEOPLE magazine, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. ![]()
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