Nina Willner

Nina Willner is the award-winning author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction books, The Boys in the Light, which was named Amazon's #3 Best Book of 2025 - Top Nonfiction, and Best History Book of the Year, and Forty Autumns, 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 led sensitive missions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. After a career in intelligence, Nina lived in Moscow, Minsk, Prague, Ottawa and Istanbul promoting human rights, rule of law for the US government, and women's and children's non-profit causes. After years living abroad, she now writes narrative nonfiction full time from her home in Washington DC.