Anne Frank

The Biography


„This nuanced and valuable supplement to Anne´s diary eschews idealization, providing a fuller picture of a vibrant, willful, and soul-searching young woman.”

Publishers Weekly


For this portrait of my famous subject, I drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends as well as on previously unavailable  correspondence and documents, even, in the process, discovering five missing diary pages. I was aiming to return Anne Frank to history, unsentimentally portraying her as the flesh-and-blood girl she was.

Fifteen years after the book first appeared, I revised and updated it with more than 30 percent new material, also taking a closer look at the Frank family´s arrest and  the possible betrayers.


Müller´s biography ably celebrates ‘a life of singular intensity’ … In the end, it does exactly what it should: sends us back to Anne´s words.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer


An accurate and honest portrait”

The Independent