I just read in Publishers Weekly that Palgrave-Macmillan signed a contract with Sheila Isenberg for the biography of Muriel Gardiner: Her War: The True Story of an American Heiress in the Resistance against the Nazis. This was great news. I grew up spending summers on a farm outside of Princeton that my family shared with Muriel and her husband Joe--a man who worked in the Austrian underground and whom she had married essentially to get him out of a camp. She was an amazing woman who saved innumerable Jews during the war, smuggling them false papers and passports--adventures that coud have cost her her life.  Much later, the writer and playwright Lillian Hellman wrote a memoir in which she claimed as a friend a person who could only have been Muriel. A movie was made about this supposed friend called "Julia". Muriel unwilling to think that someone would have willfully appropriated her life, wrote to Vienna to her friends in the underground and asked if there could have been another woman with the code name Mary. No, they answered, only you. To set the record straight, Muriel wrote a very brief book about the war and her part in it. Much more deserves to be known about this woman including her maverick  status as a psychoanalyst with a refreshing view of women's powers. I can't wait for the full biography.