Margot Benary-Isbert

Margot Benary-Isbert (December 2, 1889 – May 27, 1979) born Margot Isbert, was a German and later an American writer of children's books.

Life in Germany

Benary-Isbert was born in Saarbrücken, in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia, and raised in Frankfurt am Main, part of the German Empire but outside the Kingdom. She enjoyed telling stories and a schoolteacher recommended writing them up as fiction rather than sounding like lies; her first story was published when she was 19.

Margot Benary-Isbert died on May 27, 1979, in Santa Barbara. Her cousin was the German author and nonfiction writer Otto Albrecht Isbert (1901-1986).

Awards

First prize at the New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival in 1953 for The Ark Jane Addams Children's Book Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1957 for Annegret und Cara

Works (English titles)

The Ark (1953) Rowan Farm (1954) The Shooting Star (1954) The Wicked Enchantment (1955) Castle on the Border (1956) Blue Mystery (1957) The Long Way Home (1959) Dangerous Spring (1961) A Time to Love (1962) Under a Changing Moon (1964) These Vintage Years (1968)