Ronald H. Balson

Ronald H. Balson is an American author of historical fiction novels. He writes the Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series. Aside from being a novelist, Ron is a practicing attorney with the firm of Stone, Pogrund & Korey in Chicago. He has been practicing for over 40 years. His legal practice has taken him to courts all across the U.S. and Canada, as well as deposition testimony in various European and Asian countries. Being involved in a commercial dispute involving a telephone service in Poland, he ended up making numerous trips to Warsaw. These trips are what inspired his first novel, Once We Were Brothers . His love for history and trips to the Middle East motivated him to write his second novel, Saving Sophie .