Jessica Mann

Jessica Mann ( born 1937 in London) is a British author.

Life

Jessica 's parents, Friedrich Alexander Mann and Eleanor Ehrlich (1907-1980), were lawyers of Jewish origin, who had to emigrate from Germany after the handover of power to the Nazis in 1933. They could hold only after further studies and examinations foot in London professionally. The couple had three children, Richard David ( b. 1935 ), Jessica and Nicola (1944 ). Given the persecution of the Jews and the threat of invasion of England in 1940 Richard and Jessica were entrusted by their parents to the Children's Overseas Reception Board, who evacuated to safety in Canada. Jessica wrote about 2005 non-fiction book Out of Harm 's Way. 1943/44, Jessica was man back in London and attended St Paul 's Girls ' School. She then studied archeology at Newnham College, Cambridge, and Law at the University of Leicester.

The day after her graduation in Cambridge in 1959, she married, as it met the mission statement for the young women of bourgeois origin, the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas ( b. 1928 ). They had two sons and two daughters - and man was a " frustrated full-time wife, mother and housekeeper ." Man discovered in the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan that she was not a single destiny. The family lived for ten years in Edinburgh, and three years in Leicester and then moved to Truro in Cornwall. Later she worked as employees in the regional administration.

In 1971 she began writing, she has since published more than twenty crime novels in which there are places of their lives and often also an archaeologist. Nevertheless, it is for the literary form of the detective novel, the best form for the author, not of himself, but better just to tell lies, Telling Only Lies, the title of one of crime fiction. Man wrote a study on crime novelists, Deadlier Than the Male. With her husband, she designed a book on the Godrevy lighthouse island, the biographical reference point of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. In 2012 she wrote a book about the social situation of housewives in the 1950s and their current mystification in television series such as Mad Men

's Features, comments and book reviews have been published in various periodicals: The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, House & Garden and the local newspaper Western Morning News, the Literary Review it created to provide a summary of the newly published crime fiction.

Works (selection)

• Everything lies. From the English by Sabine Bösz. Hamburg: Argument, 1996
• The trace of the treasure. From the English by Ilse Utz. Hamburg: Argument, 1994
• The business of Mrs. Knox. From the English by Gabriele Kunz and Else Laudan. Hamburg: Argument, 1989
• The Forgotten Island. From d Engl by Wolf Dietrich Müller. Munich: Droemersche Publishing Company Knaur, 1986
• With murders is not a state to make. From d Engl by Wolf Dietrich Müller. Munich: Earthscan, 1984
• The eighth deadly sin. Übers Dietlind Bindheim. München: Heyne, 1979
• Charles Thomas: Godrevy Light. Truro: Twelveheads Press, 2009
• The fifties mystique. London: Quartet, 2012