Helen Rappaport Biography

Born in Bromley England Helen Rappaport fell in love with Russian while attending Chatham Girls’ Grammar School and studied for a degree in Russian Special Studies at Leeds University. After graduating she rejected suggestions of a career in the Foreign Office having been heavily involved with student theatre as an undergraduate. She opted instead for the insecurities of the acting profession. After appearing on British TV and in films and commercials until the late 1980s she abandoned acting and embraced her second love writing history.
She then began contributing to biographical and historical reference works for publishers such as Cassell Reader’s Digest and Oxford University Press as well as working as a freelance editor for Blackwell in Oxford. Between 1999 and 2003 she wrote three books back-to-back for ABC-Clio a leading US reference publisher: Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion the award-winning An Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers and Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion. Her first trade title was No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (2007 ). She followed this with Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs (2008) which became a best seller in the USA as The Last days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. She then followed with Conspirator: Lenin in Exile (2009; US edition 2010). Her next title was a new departure - a Victorian true-crime story: Beautiful for Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician Con-Artist and Blackmailer published in 2010.

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