Caroline Moorehead is a British human rights journalist and biographer born on 28 October 1944. She is known for her work reporting on humanitarian issues and for writing detailed biographies and histories focused on conflict, resistance, and human rights. Her books include biographies of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, and Martha Gellhorn, as well as Village of Secrets, which examines resistance in Nazi occupied France, and A Train in Winter, about women sent to Auschwitz. Moorehead has contributed to major publications in the United Kingdom and the United States, and her work has been recognized for its historical research and narrative nonfiction.