Doris Orgel is an Austrian-born American

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author. She was born Doris Adelberg in

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Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

on February 15, 1929. In the 1930s she fled Vienna with her parents due to her Jewish descent. She lives in

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and is a full-time children's author. Her book ''The Devil in Vienna'' received a

Phoenix Award The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the ...

Honor in 1998. Her books ''Sarah's Room'' and ''Dwarf Long-Nose'' were illustrated by

Hans Christian Andersen Award The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature". Th ...

winning illustrator

Maurice Sendak Maurice Bernard Sendak (; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book ''Where the Wild Things Are'', first published in 1963.Turan, Kenneth (October 16, 200 ...

. She has also translated children's books from German to English. Two of her translations, ''Nero Corleone: a Cat's Story'' by

Elke Heidenreich Elke Heidenreich (née Riegert; born 15 February 1943) is a German author, TV presenter, literary critic and journalist. She has written audio plays, a magazine column, scripts for television plays and books. Heidenreich is known as the ''Kabarett ...

and '' Daniel Half Human'' by David Chotjewitz, are Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books, the award recognizing outstanding translated children's books. She attended Radcliffe College from 1946 to 1948 and graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 1950. She is married to Shelley Orgel, a medical doctor specializing in psychoanalysis, and has three children.

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