“I knew then that I needed to investigate and write about what happened.”Īrmed with a digital voice recorder and a moleskin notebook, Hunter set off on a nine-year journey that took her around the globe. She didn’t ponder the project for another six years until a family reunion, when additional stories of the war were revealed. “I had no idea that my grandfather was Polish-born, much less Jewish,” shares the author, whose book was named one of the “Best Books to Read in 2017” by Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar. Over an afternoon spent talking with her grandmother, the Massachusetts native, who was not being raised as a Jew, learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. When she was 11, she pitched an Opinion piece to her hometown newspaper since that debut in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle, her personal essays and photos have been featured in the New York Times “Why We Travel,” travelgirl magazine, and on .Īt 15, the seeds for her epic historic novel, “We Were the Lucky Ones,” were planted when a high school teacher assigned an I Search project for students to explore their ancestry.

At four, in homage to her father Thomas Hunter’s 1982 sci-fi story, “Softly Walks the Beast,” she penned her first novel, coining it “Charlie Walks the Beast.”

In “We Were the Lucky Ones,” author Georgia Hunter delivers an epic tale inspired by her Polish ancestors who survived the Holocaustįreelance journalist, For as long as she can remember, Georgia Hunter has been a writer.

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