 MARIETTA MOSKIN was born in Vienna, Austria, but received most of her elementary school education in Amsterdam, Holland, where her family lived until the German invasion in 1940. She and her family were subsequently taken to a number of different concentration camps in Holland and Germany. As a survivor, after the war, she lived in Paris for a year before coming to the United States with her parents in 1946. She received a BA in Economics from Barnard College and an MS in Public Finance from the University of Wisconsin. She worked for a number of years as an economic researcher but after her marriage and the birth of the first of her two children, Jim and Linda, she changed careers and began writing and reviewing children’s books for the Children’s Book Committee of the Child Study Association of America (now, the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education)—something she could do at home. Her first book, The Best Birthday Party, was published in 1964, and I Am Rosemarie, based on her wartime experiences, in 1972. Mrs. Moskin has published 16 books, several with international editions, a short story, “A Tulip for Tony,” and several translations from Dutch and German. They range from picture books and beginning readers to Young Adult fiction and non-fiction. In 1976, she won the Shirley Kravitz Children’s Book Award for her contribution to Jewish children’s literature, which also included her book, Waiting for Mama (©1975), about a Jewish girl at the turn of the 20th century (part of a series of stories about historical New York City). Mrs. Moskin lives in New York City. She can be e-mailed at: m.moskin@verizon.net . |
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