 After the war, when she was 15, she and her family moved back to Poland, although in her heart, Esther wanted to stay.Hautzig reportedly wrote "The Endless Steppe" at the prompting of Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, to whom she had written after reading his articles about his visit to Rubtsovsk.Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, while en route to America on a student visa in 1947.