Anne Blankman

<p>Anne Blankman is the acclaimed author of <em>Prisoner of Night and Fog</em>, which received a starred review and a Flying Start from <em>Publishers Weekly</em>. When Anne was twelve, she read Anne Frank's diary and has been haunted by World War II ever since. The idea for <em>Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke</em> came to her after she read about a real-life unsolved street assassination from January 1933, which was the inspiration for Monika Junge's murder. To research this book, she studied a wide range of sources, including biographies, memoirs, social histories, psychological profiles, old maps, photographs, and video footage.</p><p>Anne lives in southeastern Virginia with her husband, Mike, her young daughter, Kirsten, and, of course, lots and lots of books. </p>