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Doris Orgel


Born
in Vienna, Austria
February 15, 1929

Genre
Children's Books


Doris Orgel is a children's writer. She was born in Vienna, Austria. As a child, she and her family fled to Yugoslavia and finally the U.S. during the rise of the Nazi party in Europe. She attended Radcliffe College from 1946 too 1948, and graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 1950.

In her career, Ms. Orgel has written and translated several fairy and folk tales, as well as served as a translator for other authors. Prior to her work as a children's writer, Orgel was in magazine and book publishing. Her first original book, Sarah’s Room (1963) was published under the pseudonym Doris Adelberg. It was also republished in England and in Switzerland in German. In 1960, Ms. Orgel received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for her translation of ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,170 ratings · 374 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
The Devil in Vienna
3.89 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1978 — 16 editions
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We Goddesses: Athena, Aphro...
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The Princess and the God
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Sarah's Room
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Nobodies and Somebodies
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Next Door to Xanadu
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A Certain Magic
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Quotes by Doris Orgel

“Aphrodite, Aphrodite--I am sick of hearing poets sing her praise. "Violet-crowned, the golden, laughter-loving one..." How she sets their hearts a-twitter! And they call her "Queen of Love"--what folly.
If love is like a firefly that flits about and quickly fades, then let her be its queen.
If love is sacred, and endures, then it is my domain.”
― Doris Orgel, We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera
tags: hera, love, marriage, sanctity
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