Sonia Wolff Levitin (born August 18, 1934)[1] is a German-American novelist, artist, and producer.
Her father, a prominent clothing designer, escaped to New York City and then to Los Angeles where he would raise Sonia and her sisters.
[3] Levitin would later write several novels about struggling as an immigrant in the United States; these include: The Journey to America and Silver Days, a series about a family of German Jewish refugees who flee the horrors of the Holocaust.
Levitin wrote numerous novels for young adults that oftentimes featured semi-autobiographical characters.
The most common theme of her writing include courageous main characters faced with difficult challenges, who must "take charge" in order to overcome these obstacles.