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Margot Benary-Isbert

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Born: December 01 1889

Died: 2626 05 19791979

German-born children’s author known for her "depictions of humane, realistic characters."

Benary-Isbert attended the College St. Carolus and the University of Frankfurt. She worked as a secretary at the Museum of Ethnology and Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany from 1910-1917, when she married Wilhelm Benary. They settled in Erfurt, in East Germany.

When the Russians took over Germany, she fled to the apartment of a friend in West Germany. In 1948 she wrote Die Arche Noah . In 1953 it received a first prize at the New York Herald Tribune's Spring Book Festival. Post-war Germany became a common theme in most of her works.

In 1952 she moved to the United States, where she was naturalized in 1957 and worked as a writer until her death. She received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1957 for "Annegret und Cara".

Most of Benary-Isbert's books were originally written and published in German; some were later translated into English and published again.

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Margot Benary-Isbert

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Books from Margot Benary-Isbert

Rowan Farm

Under A Changing Moon

The Wicked Enchantment

Blue Mystery

Castle on the Border

Dangerous Spring

The Shooting Star

Rowan Farm

Die Großmutter und ihr erster Enkel

Aufruhr in Vogelsang

The Ark

The Long Way Home

A Time to Love

Dangerous Spring

The Long Way Home

Dangerous Spring