Sheila Isenberg’s most recent book is Muriel’s War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance (Palgrave). Isenberg is also author of A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry (Random House) – named a notable book byThe St. Louis Post-Dispatch and featured on the web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – and the groundbreaking Women Who Love Men Who Kill (Simon & Schuster). She is co-author with the late William M. Kunstler of My Life as a Radical Lawyer (Carol Publishing) and collaborator with Tracey Brown on The Life and Times of Ron Brown (William Morrow). Isenberg’s books have been translated into other languages and she has appeared in documentaries and on multiple media platforms, including NPR, CNN, “20/20,” “The Today Show,” and “Good Morning America.”

Born in New York City, Sheila Isenberg earned a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and studied in the graduate English Department of Hunter College. A former award-winning reporter, she is now adjunct professor of English at Marist College and lives with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley.