Marilyn Silverstone

The eldest daughter of Murray and Dorothy Silverstone was born in London. and 20th-Century Fox, working with Charlie Chaplin and other early film stars in London. The family returned to America just before the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe. Silverstone grew up in Scarsdale, New York. After graduating from Wellesley College, she became an associate editor for Art News, Industrial Design and Interiors in the early 1950s. She moved to Italy to make documentary art films. ==Photojournalist==

at Siliguri by Silverstone Silverstone became a working photojournalist in 1955, traveling and capturing the range of images that her vision led her to find in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Her photographs of the arrival in India of the Dalai Lama, who was escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet, made the lead in Life. in which she was only one of five women members. the University of St Andrews hosted a seminar in conjunction with this exhibition, and as Silverstone had just recently died, the seminar became an opportunity for her peers to celebrate her life and career. ==Buddhist nun==

Silverstone's conversion to Buddhist nun was said to have begun when she was a teenager suffering from the mumps. or Ani Marilyn to her close friends. where she had worked to establish and maintain. ==Selected works==

Books by Silverstone • Gurkhas And Ghosts: The Story Of A Boy In Nepal. London: Methuen Publishing, 1964. [reprinted by Criterion Books, New York, 1970. .] • Bala: Child of India. New York: Hastings House, 1968. . • Ocean of Life: Visions of India and the Himalayan Kingdoms. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1985. . Books with contributions by Silverstone • Miller, Luree. (1987). The Black Hat Dances: Two Buddhist Boys in the Himalayas (photography by Marilyn Silverstone). New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. (cloth) ==Notes==