RONALD H. BALSON is a Chicago trial attorney, an educator, and a writer. Balson was a finalist for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction in 2014 and a finalist for the Premio Bancarella Italian Literature Award in 2014. He was an honoree at the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s Carl Sandburg Literary Award Dinner. He is the author of Saving Sophie and the international bestseller Once We Were Brothers. You can sign up for email updates here.