Ingeborg Lauterstein

Ingeborg Lauterstein is the author of "The Water Castle," "Vienna Girl," and "Shoreland." She was born in Vienna Austria and began to write as a young child. The war broke out while she was in a Scottish boarding school. Later she became the youngest student at the Glasgow School of Art. She received awards as a painter, also a Hospital Field scholarship, graduated with honors and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. In Austria Oskar Kokoschka would later sign some of her studies.

After the war she taught Art and painted in Vienna. She worked for winter relief for modern Artists who had been in hiding under Hitler. She came to America to study with Joseph Albers at Black Mountain College. The poet Charles Olson found her to be his most promising student during his first year as a teacher and encouraged her novella. Later Catherine Ann Porter and Allan Tate selected "Morning Light" for a Double Day award. She studied at the New School mostly with Caroline Gordon, but also studied with Margaret Young and Alice Morris. She received a Yaddo fellowship. She was first published by Yankee Magazine and later included in The Best of Yankee. "The Water Castle" was written and published after her marriage, so was the sequel "Vienna Girl" and "Shoreland." She is now completing her own story. She is a widow and has one son.