Morris, Heather: - Heather Morris is a native of New Zealand, now resident in Australia.
Heather originally wrote Lale\'s story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz..
Their friendship grew and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her.
The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives.
In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who \'might just have a story worth telling\'.
For several years, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the US.
Morris, Heather: - Heather Morris is a native of New Zealand, now resident in Australia