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  Marisha Pessl

  American writer

  Marisha Pessl (born October 26, 1977) is an American writer known for her novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Night Film, Neverworld Wake, and Darkly.

  Early life

  Pessl was born 1977 in Clarkston, Michigan, to Klaus, an Austrian engineer for General Motors, and Anne, an American homemaker.^[1] Pessl's parents divorced when she was three, and she moved to Asheville, North Carolina with her mother and sister. Pessl had an intellectually stimulating upbringing, recalling that her mother read "a fair chunk of the Western canon out loud" to her and her sister before bed, and entered her in lessons for riding, painting, jazz, and French.^[1] She was also a fan of The Chronicles of Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, and the Nancy Drew books.^[2]

  Pessl started high school at the Asheville School, a private, co-educational boarding school, but graduated from Asheville High School in 1995. She attended Northwestern University for two years before transferring to Barnard College.^[3]

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  Yella Pessl

  Yella Pessl (b. 1906 Vienna, Austria – d. 1991 Northampton, MA)

  Austrian-born American harpsichordist, pianist, and organist Yella Pessl (born Gabriella Pessl Sobotka) studied at the State Academy of Music in Vienna and enjoyed a successful performance career in Europe before emigrating to the United States in 1931. Pessl was a visiting performer at Black Mountain College during the first Summer Institute of 1944, with a full-size harpsichord in tow. She became the founder and director of the Bach Circle, a New York group specializing in lesser-known works of J.S. Bach and other Baroque composers. Pessl toured extensively in the United States, playing solo recitals and with orchestras under conductors like Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter. In 1938 she accompanied the Trapp Family Singers, whom she had known in Vienna, at their Town Hall debut. She had her own radio program on WQXR, made recordings for the RCA Victor label and was on the faculty of Columbia University.