Esther R. Hautzig (Hebrew: אסתר האוציג, October 18, 1930 – November 1, 2009, in America) was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).
Her childhood was gravely interrupted by the beginning of World War II and the conquest in 1941 of eastern Poland by Soviet troops.
Hautzig reportedly wrote The Endless Steppe at the prompting of Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, to whom she had written after reading his articles about his visit to Rubtsovsk.
[1] Hautzig helped to discover and eventually publish the master's thesis in mathematics[2] written by her uncle Ela-Chaim Cunzer (1914–1943/44) at the University of Wilno in 1937.
[4] Hautzig's book The Endless Steppe has appeared in dozens of editions and has been translated into many languages, including Catalan, Dutch, Danish, English (Braille), French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Sinhalese, and Swedish.