Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction, and she won the Carnegie Medal for Salt to the Sea, a war novel. Her other novels include Between Shades of Gray, a war story, and Out of the Easy, a historical mystery. She has also written A Fortune of Sand, set in 1927 Detroit, where an heiress with an artist's eye looks into women who vanish.