Isabelle (Christian) Holland (1920-2002) was born in Basel in Switzerland, and educated in England and the United States. She was the daughter of an American consul. She earned a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in 1942 and settled in New York, She became the publicist for several of New York's top publishing houses. She wrote numerous novels, including many prize-winning books for children, but the first of them was not published until she was past her mid-forties. She was still writing in her eighties.
