A. A. Eimont

Grace Austin was born in Vilnius, of Lithuanian descent, and absorbed accounts of the war years 1939-1944 from her parents. VILNIUS: UNDER FOUR FLAGS was based on these stories. She graduated from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Dental School, later obtaining a specialty in Periodontics at Rutgers Dental School. After extensive travel in the Middle East she wrote LEDA: PROFILE OF AN AMERICAN TERRORIST and a children's book GIZA THE GAZA DONKEY. She lives in Chicago with her husband Jack Matlock Jr. and her cat Charlie.