MEMBER:Īuthors League of America, Authors Guild, PEN, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, California Writer's Guild, Moraga Historical Society (founder and former president). Performed volunteer work, including publicity, for various charities and educational institutions. Founder of STEP ( adult education organization), Palos Verdes Peninsula. Junior high school teacher in Mill Valley, CA, 1956-57 adult education teacher in Daly City, CA, 1962-64 Acalanes Adult Center, Lafayette, CA, teacher, 1965-72 teacher of creative writing, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA, 1973-76, and University of California, Los Angeles Extension, 1978- University of Judaism, instructor in American Jewish literature, 1989. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, piano, Judaic studies, travel, history, painting. Education: Attended University of California, Berkeley, 1952-54 University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1956 San Francisco State College (now University), graduate study, 1957-60. She is also noted as a painter whose artwork was displayed in 2015 for the first time.Born August 18, 1934, in Berlin, Germany immigrated to United States, 1938 daughter of Max (a manufacturer) and Helene Wolff married Lloyd Levitin (a business executive), Decemchildren: Daniel Joseph, Shari Diane. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Southern California Council on Literature for Children's Distinguished Body of Work Award. She is the author of picture books, mysteries, humor, historical adventures, and novels for young adults, many with Jewish themes, that sometimes feature semi-autobiographical characters.

She worked as a publicist and columnist for several newspapers until her first children's novel, Journey to America, was published in 1970 to great acclaim and became a bestseller. She then completed a degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania and the couple went to live in the San Francisco Bay area and had two children.

She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she met her future husband, Lloyd Levitin, whom she married in 1953. At age 3, Sonia, her mother Helene, and two sisters made their way to Switzerland before being reunited with her father in the USA in 1939. Her father Max Wolff, a prominent clothing designer, escaped Nazi Germany to the USA, settling in New York and then in Los Angeles. Sonia Levitin was born in Berlin, Germany.

Nine for California by Sonia Levitin