Heather Morris (born 1953) is an internationally bestselling New Zealand-born Australian author and screenwriter whose deeply moving historical fiction has sold over 18 million copies worldwide. Heather Morris's Official Website Raised in Te Awamutu, New Zealand, she relocated to Melbourne in 1971 and spent several decades working in the social work department of a major public hospital while studying screenwriting. Her life completely transformed in 2003 when she was introduced to Lale Sokolov, an elderly Holocaust survivor who entrusted her with the profound details of his wartime survival. Originally written as a screenplay, Morris reshaped his story into her 2018 debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which became a massive international phenomenon, topping the New York Times bestseller list, translating into over 50 countries, and adapting into a critically acclaimed television miniseries. She solidified her reputation for exploring human resilience by expanding this universe into a loose trilogy with Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters, later publishing the Pacific-theater survival epic Sisters Under the Rising Sun and her 2026 French Resistance drama, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse.
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