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Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Vesper Stamper writes and illustrates novels which tell, through words and pictures, stories of history's rhymes. Her debut illustrated YA novel, What the Night Sings, about two teens emerging from the Holocaust, was a National Book Award Nominee, National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner. Vesper lives with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two teenagers, in the Northeast.
This intimate portrait of two brothers split by the Berlin Wall in 1961 feels like a parable, a warning, a mirror of our modern times. -Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, Printz Award Winner An excellent, nuanced piece of historical fiction. -The Horn Book, starred review [Stamper's] portrayal of propaganda and how teens can easily fall prey to this kind of rhetoric is spot on. -Booklist
