Hungarian-born novelist Eva Wiseman has received numerous prizes, including the McNally Robinson Books for Young People Award for My Canary Yellow Star. That novel and A Place Not Home were selected for the New York Public Library's annual Best Books for the Teen Age list. No One Must Know holds the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. Kanada was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and was the winner of the prestigious Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. Puppet not only won the McNally Robinson Award, but also the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth Literature. Eva Wiseman is the mother of two children and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her husband.