Remembered for such acclaimed children's novels as The Abominables, Which Witch?, and Journey to the River Sea, she also wrote such bestselling works for adults as A Song for Summer and The Morning Gift. A native of Vienna, Austria, she grew up as Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner and was the daughter of a writer and a doctor. Born into a Jewish family, she was forced to flee Austria in the 1930s as a result of the strengthening Nazi regime.
