Society and Culture: Anne Frank, A Young Girl With a Vision

"When you let beauty and peace sink into you, dissension and strife begin to look like sheer insanity. Everything that people make a fuss about, becomes unimportant." So said a character in a short story written by Anne Frank in 1944, but the words could easily have been her own. Anne is better known, of course, as author of the best-selling secular nonfiction book of all time, which she began on her 13th birthday and finished at age 15. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is second in nonfiction sales only to the Bible. Anne Frank was a young girl with a vision, a vision so powerful our society and culture has not forgotten after 60 years. Always an aspiring writer, Anne wrote about her ambition in he View the rest of this article