Ethel Mannin Author

Ethel Mannin was a prolific writer, author of over eighty novels, travel books, memoirs, and literary and political criticism. Born in London in 1900, she inherited her father's unique combination of socialism and grass-roots Christianity and throughout her life remained an advocate of outsiders and the oppressed. Active in anti-fascist movements in the 1930s, she became a vocal supporter of sovereignty for the Palestinians after the recognition of Israel. She also prided herself on traveling "the hard way" and published books on her journeys in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, India and Pakistan, as well as in England and the United States. She died in Devon in 1984.