Nina Will­ner is the author of two crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed non­fic­tion books, The Boys in the Light (Pen­guin Ran­dom House/​Dutton 2025), which was named Ama­zon Edi­tors’ #3 Best Book of the Year and Ama­zon Edi­tors’ #1 Non­fic­tion of the Year, and Forty Autumns (HarperCollins/​Wm Mor­row 2016), which was named a Top 15 Non­fic­tion Book of 2016 by the CS Mon­i­tor. Pri­or to her writ­ing career, Nina was a US Army intel­li­gence offi­cer who ran clas­si­fied mis­sions behind the Iron Cur­tain dur­ing the Cold War. Fol­low­ing a 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.