Sheila Isenberg
Professor of Journalism and English

Muriel's War
An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
Palgrave, December 2010

Isenberg's last book, A Hero of Our Own, a biography of Varian Fry published in 2001 by Random House, was named a notable book by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is a featured book on the official web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is also the author of Women Who Love Men Who Kill (Simon & Schuster 1991); co-author with the late William M. Kunstler of My Life as a Radical Lawyer (Carol Publishing 1994); and collaborator with Tracey Brown on The Life and Times of Ron Brown, (William Morrow 1998).

Her books have been translated into Japanese and German, and she appears frequently in the national media, most recently on “Good Morning America.” She has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, “20/20,” “The Today Show,” many other cable and network programs, and dozens of newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Internationally.

A former reporter and press secretary, Isenberg now teaches journalism and English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie N.Y. She is a member of Pen and the Authors’ Guild and lives in Woodstock N.Y., with her husband, Chris Collins, a psychology instructor and union founder.

You can visit her websites at www.sheilaisenberg.com and www.redroom.com/author/sheilaisenberg.