Helen Mosel was born to a German father and a Hungarian/Austrian mother in Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906.
Wolff attended boarding schools in Vienna and learned English.
The Pantheon imprint where she worked was sold to a Parisian company, and Wolff went there as part of the deal.
The Nazis closed the publishing house and the family fled to the United States via Italy and France.
[1][2][3][4][5] They published a number of notable works including Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Georges Simenon, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea.