Ronald H. Balson Books in Order

Ronald H. Balson is a practicing attorney with the Chicago firm of Stone, Pogrund & Korey, with a storied career spanning forty-three years as a civil litigation attorney. He has also taught as an adjunct professor of business law at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business for twenty-five years, frequently lecturing in federal bar certification courses and trial advocacy seminars. Balson's extensive travels have taken him to courts across the United States and Canada, and for deposition testimony across Europe and Asia. His experiences, particularly a commercial dispute in Poland, inspired his debut novel, Once We Were Brothers, while his love of history and travels to the Middle East motivated his second novel, Saving Sophie. Balson's writing has been influenced by encounters with Holocaust survivors, which formed the basis for his third book, Karolina's Twins. He has received prestigious recognition, including finalist positions for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction and the Premio Bancarella Italian Literature Award, and was an honoree at the Chicago Public Library Foundation's Carl Sandburg Literary Award dinner.