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| Lenona... |
 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:59 am |
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She lived in NYC.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6632026&articleid=CA6705087
(obit; includes photo and book cover)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/books/03hautzig.html
(another - excerpts follow)
Mrs. Hautzig was moved to write about her family's war ordeal after
reading articles in the 1950s by Adlai Stevenson, the unsuccessful
presidential candidate, about his visit to Rubtsovsk, the city in
south-central Siberia where Mrs. Hautzig, her parents and a
grandmother spent the war. She wrote to Stevenson, and in his reply he
urged her to turn her impressions into a book.
The book, "The Endless Steppe," tells of the charmed, prosperous life
of Esther Rudomin, a young girl living in her native Vilna, then part
of Poland and now in Lithuania - "a city of lovely old houses hugging
the hills and each other," Mrs. Hautzig writes - until German bombs
rained down, spelling "the end of my lovely world."
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books.childrens/browse_thread/thread/2cb610108f793016/a3ae345eacdc9490?lnk=gst&q=esther+hautzig#a3ae345eacdc9490
(birthday post; includes booklist)
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