Ilse-Margret Vogel
Ilse-Margret Vogel (5 June 1914 – 7 October 2001) was a German-American author who mostly wrote for children and young adults. However, she is perhaps best known for her memoir Bad Times, Good Friends - A personal memoir which tells the story of her life between 1943 and 1945 living in Nazi Germany and how a small group of German artists and dissidents lived under Hitler. Vogel worked for the art dealer J.B. Neumann in New York.
Ilse-Margret Vogel
- Born
- 1914 · Szczodre and Wrocław County.
- Died
- 2001
- Nationality
- Germany · United States
- Occupation
- writer · illustrator
- Languages
- English
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Ilse-Margret Vogel (5 June 1914 – 7 October 2001) was a German-American author who mostly wrote for children and young adults. However, she is perhaps best known for her memoir Bad Times, Good Friends - A personal memoir which tells the story of her life between 1943 and 1945 living in Nazi Germany and how a small group of German artists and dissidents lived under Hitler. Vogel worked for the art dealer J.B. Neumann in New York.
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Her husband is artist, children's author and illustrator Howard Knotts.
• Bad Times, Good Friends - A personal memoir. Ilse-Margret Vogel, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1992 • The Bear in the Boat. Ilse-Margret Vogel, Golden Press, Racine, Wisconsin, 1972
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1914
Ilse-Margret Vogel born at Szczodre, Wrocław County.
2001
Ilse-Margret Vogel died.
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