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Ronald H. Balson

Biography

Ronald H. Balson

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 their Illinois Reads program. He is also the author of A PLACE TO HIDE, AN AFFAIR OF SPIES, DEFENDING BRITTA STEIN, ELI'S PROMISE, KAROLINA'S TWINS, THE TRUST, SAVING SOPHIE and the international bestseller ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS. He has appeared on many television and radio programs and has lectured nationally and internationally on his writing. He lives in Chicago.

Books by Ronald H. Balson

A Place to Hide
by Ronald H. Balson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson’s A PLACE TO HIDE explores the deeply moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference.

Once We Were Brothers
by Ronald H. Balson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Solomon, encourages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's own family, only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man?