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Mar 01, 1961 63 years old
American author, intelligence officer, and human rights activist
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About Nina Willner
- Nina Willner (born March 1, 1961) is an American nonfiction author, a former intelligence officer and human rights activist.
- Her first book Forty Autumns A Family’s Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (HarperCollins William Morrow, 2016, ISBN 0062410318) is the true story of Willner's own mother's escape from communist East Germany at age 20, the large family she left behind the Iron Curtain, and their four-decade journey to reunite.
- During the Cold War, at age 22, Nina Willner, a U.S.
- Army intelligence officer, was sent into the heart of Soviet-controlled East Berlin to run secret spy missions.
- Willner uses her personal story to tell the broader story of the Cold War and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, providing a unique and highly readable historical narrative of these incredible events. Forty Autumns was named “Top 15 Nonfiction Books of 2016” by Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews praised it as a book that “celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.”
