Esther Vilar was born in 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to German-Jewish emigrants. She studied medicine in Argentina and subsequently psychology and sociology in Germany. She worked as a hospital physician until 1963, after which she worked as a translator and radio author, and then as a freelance writer. In 1971 she had her breakthrough as an author with the international bestseller "The Manipulated Man". Due to hostilities and death threats after publication of the book she left Germany in 1975. Esther Vilar has published numerous successful non-fiction books, essays, novels, fairy tales, and plays.
 

Publications (selection):

• The Manipulated Man. 1998. 
• Der dressierte Mann [The Manipulated Man] (in German). 1971.
• The Polygamous Sex: A man's right to the other woman. 1976.
• Alt (in German). 1980
• Oud (in Dutch). De Centaur. 1980.
• El discurso inaugural de la papisa americana [The inaugural address of the American papess] (in Spanish). 1982
• Speer. Play (in German). 1998.