Nina Willner is the author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction books. The Boys in the Light (Penguin Random House/Dutton 2025) received a Kirkus starred review, and was named Amazon Editors' #3 Best Book of the Year – Top Nonfiction, and Best History Book of 2025. Willner's first book Forty Autumns  (HarperCollins/Wm Morrow 2016) earned a Library Journal starred review and 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 sensitive 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, women’s and children’s causes and the rule of law for the US Government, nonprofits and a variety of charities. After years living abroad, she now writes narrative nonfiction full time from her home in Washington DC.