This website has interviews with the author and behind the scenes information about the book. It also has different reviews about the books and background information about the author.
Born and raised in Michigan, Ruta Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. The nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia disappeared from maps in 1941 and did not reappear until 1990. Ruta wanted to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during Stalin's cleansing of the Baltic region.
Ruta currently lives with her family in Tennessee. Between Shades of Gray is her first published novel.