Candles in the Closet by Vera Propp
     
 
Vera Propp
 
 
Vera Propp with her daughter Elizabeth
 
  Vera W. Propp was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States with her parents as a young child in 1938. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; graduated from Radcliffe; and then moved to Albany, New York with her husband, Richard Propp, M.D. Vera taught in the Albany public schools for twenty-five years and is now a full time writer of children’s books. She has two adult children and two grandchildren. Her first book When the Soldiers Were Gone, was published in 1999.  
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