Breaking Night

Informationen zum Autor Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which was given to her by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a film about Murray's life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story . The founder and director of Manifest Living, a New York-based company that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives, today Murray travels the world delivering motivational speeches and conducting workshops to inspire others. Klappentext Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was in and out of mental institutions, she seemed destined to become just another tragic statistic. Another life wasted on the brutal streets of New York. By the age of 15, Liz found herself homeless. Zusammenfassung Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was in and out of mental institutions, she seemed destined to become just another tragic statistic. Another life wasted on the brutal streets of New York. By the age of 15, Liz found herself homeless.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Murray, Murray Liz
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780099556299
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955629-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness