“When
I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition
in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on
my word?” – Sonia Levitin
A German American immigrant who
escaped from Nazi Germany as a young girl (her family was Jewish), she was born
Sonia Wolff on this day in 1934. She
wrote her first poem at age 8 and has not only kept her word but ended up with
over 40 novels for young adults and children.
For good measure, she added a number of plays and wrote numerous essays
on topics for adults.
Levitin began her professional
writing career as a publicity columnist for several newspapers, but after her
first novel Journey to America became an instant classic, she
began to pick up traction as a professional novelist. Her novels for young adults often featured semi-autobiographical characters. And most of her books focus
around historical events and tragedies, the theme being courageous
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who must "take
charge" in order to overcome these obstacles.
A frequent presenter on both writing
and the immigrant experience, and a longtime teacher of creative writing, Levitan noted, “Through my writing, I have made
new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder,
with all its challenges.”
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