Pam Jenoff is an American author who is best known for her book, The Kommandant’s Girl. For college, she attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and then earned her Master’s degree in History from Cambridge University in England. After college, she would accept an appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army which led to a long career in government.
Pam would work in both the Pentagon and the State Department until 1996 when she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. It was during this period that Pam learned a lot about Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust, which served her well in her later writing career.
Publication Order of Jordan Weiss Books
Publication Order of Kommandant's Girl Books
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Publication Order of Amanda Hodgkinson Collections
(with Karen White, Kristina McMorris, Melanie Benjamin, Amanda Hodgkinson)
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If You Like Pam Jenoff Books, You’ll Love…
The Kommandant’s Girl was Jenoff’s groundbreaking debut novel and one of her most popular books. The book follows nineteen-year-old Emma Bau who just got married three weeks ago but there is already trouble when Nazi tanks come thunder into town. Her husband disappears and she is living in the ghetto until she is smuggled out by the resistance. She takes on a new name and a new life, as a high ranking Kommandant’s assistant, and uses her position to fight for the cause – even as it compromises her safety and marriage vows.
Another great book by Jenoff is The Lost Girls of Paris. This book centers on three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. A woman named Grace finds an unaccompanied suitcase in Grand Central Terminal and can’t help herself but to look. What she finds is photographs of different women, each a secret agent deployed out of London during the war. Grace becomes obsessed with the photos and seeks to find out the true stories behind these remarkable women in the photographs.
