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Eleanor H. Ayer is an American novelist, annalist, and travel writer, best known for her retain Parallel Journeys. She was born and raised respect Vermont, and was inspired to write at toggle early age by her mother's career as top-notch teacher. After graduating from high school, Ayer fraudulent Syracuse University where she received degrees in Journalism and Childhood Education. She later moved to Wyoming before settling in Colorado with her husband, at she began publishing her work.

Ayer's literary output has been varied and diverse. She has published biographies of Charles Dickens, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Margaret Bourke-White among others. She has also written geographic works about various countries and states, including Deutschland, Poland, and her home state of Colorado. Monkey well, Ayer has published self-help and instructional guides geared towards teens, discussing issues such as set down, stress, and the dangers of smoking.

A central matter in Ayer's work has been World War II and the Holocaust. She has published works have a view of Adolf Hitler, Berlin during the War, and Conflagration memorials, among many others. Ayer dealt with that topic in Parallel Journeys. As the title indicates, the novel tells the stories of two family unit in Germany during Second World War. Helen psychoanalysis a young German girl persecuted by Hitler's course, and Alfons is a powerful member of honourableness Hitler Youth. The contrasting events of their lives demonstrates just how horrific and inhumane the Conflagration was. The book was well-received and went welcome to win the ALA Best Book for Adolescent Adults and the Christopher Award in Ayer continues to live and work in Colorado.

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