Maia Teresa Wojciechowska (August 7, 1927 – June 13, 2002) was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.
After the 1939 invasion of Poland, the family fled to France, where she attended dozens of schools.
[3] In 1965, her book Shadow of a Bull (1964), features a Spanish boy destined to be a bullfighter.
It won the 1965 Newbery Medal recognizing the year's best contribution to American children's literature.
Its German-language edition won the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis for youth books in 1968.