Ella Leffland

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Ella Leffland (1931–2024) was an American novelist and short story writer. Highly regarded among her peers, her novels demonstrate stunning mastery of the techniques of realistic fiction. Leffland used her facility to illuminate characters whose imaginative lives are rich and often strange. The settings of most of her works are in northern California, where she grew up. She is perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical novel Rumors of Peace (1979) about a girl coming of age during World War II. Her fascination with personal and social evil emerges powerfully in her ambitious historical novel based on the life of Hermann Göring, Knight, Death and the Devil (1990).