Ronald H. Bal­son is an attor­ney, pro­fes­sor, and writer. His nov­el The Girl From Berlin won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award and was the Illi­nois Read­ing Coun­cil’s adult fic­tion selec­tion for the Illi­nois Reads pro­gram. He is also the author of Eli’s Promise, a Tar­get Book Club selec­tion, A Place to Hide, 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.