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Article: Author of Anne Frank biography sought the normal girl behind the myth.
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- January 6, 1999
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What might lead a 31-year-old Austrian to attempt writing the biography of Anne Frank 51 years after ``The Diary of a Young Girl'' first captivated a world still reeling from the Holocaust?
What could this gentile writer and editor possibly contribute to the already copious knowledge of the doomed Jewish teen-ager in the Amsterdam attic, three years after the diary's reissuance in ``definitive,'' or expanded, form? After playwrights, critics, essayists, authors and documentarians had examined every nuance of the diary and _ it was assumed _ every scrap of Frank family biographical information extant?
For Melissa Muller, the reasons were as much personal ...