Great Escape

What Neil Gaiman and My Secret Agent Grandmother Taught Me

It’s all about the power of narrative

Eliot Peper
GEN
Published in
3 min readAug 15, 2018

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Art: renald Louissaint

Neil Gaiman has a story about his cousin Helen. Helen was a Jew living in the Warsaw ghetto during Nazi occupation. Despite the desperate circumstances, Helen was determined that the children living in the ghetto would receive whatever education she could…

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Eliot Peper
GEN
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Eliot Peper is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including most recently, Foundry. He also consults on special projects. www.eliotpeper.com