Nina Will­ner is the author of Forty Autumns, which Pub­lish­ers Week­ly called ​“a thrilling and rel­e­vant read” and is still being fever­ish­ly read by book clubs eight years post-pub­li­ca­tion. Pri­or to her writ­ing career, Nina was a US Army intel­li­gence offi­cer, who served in Berlin dur­ing the Cold War. Fol­low­ing her career in intel­li­gence, Nina worked in Moscow, Min­sk, Prague, Ottawa, and Istan­bul pro­mot­ing human rights, children’s caus­es, and the rule of law for the US Gov­ern­ment, non­prof­its, and a vari­ety of char­i­ties. She is mar­ried, has three grown chil­dren, and after a life liv­ing abroad, has set­tled in Wash­ing­ton, DC.