Doris Peel
Doris Peel’s literary career spanned over fifty years. In addition to five novels, she wrote poetry and essays for the New Yorker and other periodicals. After World War II, Peel traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East as a correspondent. Her observations about the human scene were unfailingly fresh, compassionate and direct. Lullaby for a Child, first published in 1961, endures as a source of comfort, reassurance and healing for children and their families. Doris Peel passed away in 1990.