About the Author

Biography

Sheila Isenberg is currently writing Muriel’s War, a biography of American heiress and World War II heroine Muriel Gardiner. Isenberg’s last book, A Hero of Our Own, a biography of Varian Fry published in 2001 by Random House, was named a notable book by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is a featured book on the official web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is also the author of Women Who Love Men Who Kill (Simon & Schuster 1991); co-author with the late William M. Kunstler of My Life as a Radical Lawyer (Carol Publishing 1994); and collaborator with Tracey Brown on The Life and Times of Ron Brown, (William Morrow 1998).

Isenberg's books have been translated into other languages, and she appears frequently in the national media, most recently on “Good Morning America.” She has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, “20/20,” “The Today Show,” many other cable and network programs, and dozens of newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and internationally.

Born in New York City, Isenberg was educated at the City University of New York. She earned a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and studied in the graduate English Department of Hunter College. She has been a reporter and a press secretary, and is now adjunct lecturer of journalism and English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She lives in Woodstock with her husband, a college instructor and union president, and is a member of PEN and the Authors Guild. Her daughter, a writer and editor, lives in New York City.

web links: http://www.redroom.com/author/sheila-isenberg

Upcoming Works

  • Muriel’s War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

University Affiliation

  • Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Agents

  • Will Lippincott,
    Lippincott Massie McQuilkin

Contact Agents Publishers

  • Random House
    Palgrave Macmillan

Contact Publishers

  • Contact Alessandra Bastagli at Palgrave Macmillan