Elizabeth Phenix Wiesner grew up in Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn Heights, and attended Wells College and Stanford University. After graduating in 1938 she moved to Boston where she worked as a medical secretary and was a member of the Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps. She served with the American Red Cross in Italy and North Africa (1943-1944) and with the Office of Strategic Services in Europe (1944-1946). She entered the Foreign Service and served at the American embassy in Berlin in 1948, where she met Louis A. Wiesner, a fellow Foreign Service officer. They married in 1950 and had four children. Wiesner was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1977. She is the author of Pilgrim & Pioneer: A Journey with God (1989) and Between the Lines: Overseas with the Red Cross and OSS (1998).
From the description of Papers, 1943-1997 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122611249
