Gwen Edel­man’s first nov­el, War Sto­ry, was trans­lat­ed into eight lan­guages, won the Prix du Pre­mier Roman Etranger in France, and was Koret Jew­ish Book Award final­ist. She lived for many years in Paris and now lives in New York.While work­ing on The Train to War­saw, Gwen walked the entire for­mer War­saw Ghet­to: north to south, east to west.