![]() Levitin wrote numerous novels for young adults that oftentimes featured semi-autobiographical characters. Levitin began 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. She then completed a degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Īlways an avid reader, Levitin attended the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 where she would meet her husband, Lloyd Levitin. Levitin would later write several novels about struggling as an immigrant in the United States these include: The Journey to America and Silver Days, a series about a family of German Jewish refugees who flee the horrors of the Holocaust. Her father, a prominent clothing designer, escaped to New York City and then to Los Angeles where he would raise Sonia and her sisters. ![]() ![]() Being of Jewish descent, she managed to escape persecution by traveling with her mother and two sisters to Switzerland. Sonia Levitin was born on August 18, 1934, in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Her book Incident at Loring Groves (1988) won an Edgar Allan Poe Award. Levitin, a Holocaust survivor, has written over forty novels and picture books for young adults and children, as well as several theatrical plays and published essays on various topics for adults. Sonia Wolff Levitin (born August 18, 1934) is a German-American novelist, artist, producer. ![]()
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