Her second, Lost Heritage, is a sequel with new characters, completing a drama that began during the Russian Revolution and ends at the time of the Yalta Conference.
She spent winters and summers at her mother's family estate near Kazimierz Dolny, south of Warsaw.
Forced to leave France at the outset of World War II, she came with her mother to the United States where she spent two years at Sarah Lawrence College and where her extraordinary language skills landed her a job translating wartime broadcasts from around the world for CBS News.
She worked at the Office of War Information in New York City, and at the Hoover Institute, University of California, Berkeley's library and research facilities in Paris.
Borovsky married Stuart Dodds, an editor/general manager of the syndication division of the San Francisco Chronicle; they lived together in Berkeley, California.