Ronald H. Bal­son is an attor­ney, pro­fes­sor, and writer. His nov­el The Girl From Berlin won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. He is also the author of Eli’s Promise, An Affair of Spies, Defend­ing Brit­ta Stein, Karolina’s Twins, The Trust, Sav­ing Sophie, and the inter­na­tion­al best­seller, Once We Were Broth­ers. He lives in Chicago.