Children's literature, young adult nonfiction, adult nonfiction
Notable works
Writing Children's Books for Dummies, Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Lisa Rojany (born February 14, 1964) is an American author, editor and publishing executive.
She has written dozens of children's books[1][2][3] and was the lead author of Writing Children's Book for Dummies [Wiley, 2005, 2013][4] – an Amazon Bestseller[5] about the process of writing, promoting, and publishing a book.[6] She also co-wrote (with Julie Stav) the New York Times Bestselling adult nonfiction Fund Your Future [Berkley 2002].[7][8]
Her 2009 YA nonfiction, Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz, co-authored with Eva Kor, was named an American Booksellers Association ABC Best Books for Young Readers in 2017,[9] and has received notoriety from Candles Holocaust Museum,[10] the Jewish Book Council,[11] as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu,[12] among others.
Her books have been translated to Spanish,[13][14] German,[15]Polish,[16]Romanian,[17] Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, and other languages.