The Hands of War

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, during World War II, the daughter of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. As well as the Holocaust, she experienced the firestorm bombings that killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed much of the city in 1943, and spent the last eighteen months of the war in hiding. In 1952 she moved to New York City, where she worked at the Museum of Modern Art and shared a studio with other aspiring artists. Moving to Washington, D.C., in 1960, she married, became a mother, a U.S. citizen, and a civil rights activist, and ran a Freedom School in Mississippi as a staff worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She is a fiber artist whose works have been exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic and is currently writing a book about life on a small Sicilian island, on which she lived for seven years. She and her husband of more than fifty years, Daniel Ingram, currently live in Washington, D.C., to be near their son, also Daniel, and his wife Sally, and grandsons, Sam and Noah.