Gitta Mallasz always rejected any notion of ’authorship’ for this book, saying, “I am merely the ’scribe’ of the angels.”  Born in 1907 in Austria, she arrived at age 15 in Budapest, where she gained fame as a champion swimmer. She went on to study art and subsequently pursued a successful career as a graphic artist. In 1960, she emigrated to Paris where, after years of silence, the story of this extraordinary encounter was finally published. The original Hungarian documentation has been translated into numerous languages, touching hundreds of thousands of readers.  Gitta Mallasz died in 1992.