Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson (née Wiesner) was an Austrian-born British novelist renowned for her children's literature, including the award-winning historical novel Journey to the River Sea, which won the Smarties Prize in 2001. Born in Vienna in 1925 to a physiologist father and writer mother, she fled to England with her family as the Nazis rose to power, later studying physiology before turning to writing in the 1960s after raising her family. She authored over twenty imaginative and humorous books for children and young adults, as well as adult romances, until her death in 2010.

Vienna, Austria Jan 21, 1925 Wikipedia
Children's literature Young adult fiction Romance