a powerful, intimate, riveting, and revealing account …a remarkable memoir of an 'ordinary' childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place
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About Irmgard A. Hunt

Author Irmgard HuntIrmgard Albine Hunt was born in Berchtesgaden, Germany, in 1934. She emigrated to the United States in 1958 and made her home in New York City until moving to Washington, DC in 1989.

Irmgard has been an executive at a number of environmental organizations, including The Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, a project of the German Marshal Fund. as a child

Irmgard holds a B.A. from Columbia University (which she earned at age 52) and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. After years as a consultant to international NGOs, she retired and began to write her memoirs.

Hunt is divorced and lives with her companion, Mike Shor, in Washington, D.C. She has two children, and two grandchildren for whom she loves to baby-sit. She enjoys backpacking, hiking, skiing, traveling, reading, and listening to classical music.