Esther Hautzig
Esther Hautzig (née Rudomin) ([undefined] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: no text (help), born October 18, 1930) is an American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).
She was born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania today). Her childhood was interrupted by the beginning of World War II and the conquest in 1941 of eastern Poland by Soviet troops. Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubstovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile. The Endless Steppe is an autobiographical account of those years in Siberia.
After the end of the war, Esther and her family moved back to Poland. At the time she was 15. She married Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, and had two children, David and Deborah, both of whom grew up to be children's authors.
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