Author Description

Missing Pictures is story about Concentration Camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia of Nazi Propaganda. History has a tendency to efface from our memories as soon as we lose curiosity in them. In this sense, it is important for us to explore and tell others of our findings. Such is the case for Rodney Downe, who finds himself in a complicated predicament when he opens an empty photo album at his part-time job at a bookstore. He shifts into the bodies of detainees held up in a concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia during the 1940s. And consequently, he finds himself in the midst of death and confusion to lose trust in humanity. [About Author] Eugene Lee: Besides napping with my dog, becoming transfixed in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and writing for fun, I am a Korean-born, German, Australian, and American educated high school senior attending Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. Whilst my passion for writing is explicated mostly in English, my fondness for the German language has never stopped since I was 7, something that has greatly aided in my research for this recent project. [Review] "Whenever I'm reading Eugene Lee's work, I know I'm in the presence of a writer who thinks deeply about the world. His writing -- probing and philosophical and particular -- explores some of the most profound questions that make us human." Former English Department Head of Concord Academy Nick Hiebert This is a moving account of a harrowing experience and the power of story telling across generations and cultures. Young Mr. Lee has a gifted and deeply empathetic voice that will surely stay with the reader for a long time to come. Concord Academy, History Department Harvard Hutchins Center Dr. Topi Dasgupta