Author Information:

Kristin Hannah was born in California. After she graduated with a degree in communication from the University of Washington, she worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published Hannah's best-selling work is The Nightingale, selling over two million copies and published in languages Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington,with her husband and their son.