Ilse-Margret Vogel (5 June 1914 - 7 October 2001)[1] was a German-American author who mostly wrote for children and young adults. However, she is perhaps best known for her memoir Bad Times, Good Friends - A personal memoir which tells the story of her life between 1943 and 1945 living in Nazi Germany and how a small group of German artists and dissidents lived under Hitler. Vogel worked for the art dealer J.B. Neumann in New York.[2]
Her husband is artist, children's author and illustrator Howard Knotts.