Born and raised in Florida Deborah Knuth is the second generation of Austrians in her family. Her grandmother, Anna Lindorfer, and her mother, Maria Lindorfer Brackett, lived in Salzburg Austria during the time of the Holocaust. Not being a Jew herself, the author captures the heroic lives of the Jews during this time. Upon graduating from the University of Central Florida and the Writer's Digest School, she has worked as a freelance writer where she has published several magazine articles. Currently she is writing the sequel to Salzburg Secrets.