 In addition to her short stories and novels, Isaksson also wrote scripts for films and plays.Isaksson was born in Stockholm in 1916, the daughter of Knut Lundberg and Greta Brasch, who was a member of the Immanuelkyrkan church; this gave Isaksson's upbringing a strong religious character, something that marked her early novels.Isaksson graduated from high school in 1937; she then began studying philosophy.