Fern Lebo has been writ­ing pro­fes­sion­al­ly since 1975. Her last book, The Tal­ent Rev­o­lu­tion, was pub­lished by The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Press and has been trans­lat­ed into three lan­guages. Fol­low­ing the Octo­ber 7 mas­sacre, Fern began inter­view­ing Jan Blu­men­stein and writ­ing his mem­oir. Her evoca­tive style con­veys Jan’s courage and tena­cious will to live, cre­at­ing an inti­mate con­nec­tion with The Boy in the Back, Jan’s true account of sur­vival as told to Fern, his friend and writ­ing voice.

Jan Blu­men­stein is a Holo­caust survivor.