About the Author
Jillian Becker writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, The Keep, is now a Penguin Modern Classic, and one of her stories, The Stench, is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her best known work of non-fiction is Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, an international best-seller. She was Director of the London-based Institute for the Study of Terrorism 1985-1990, and on the subject of terrorism contributed to TV and radio current affairs programs in Britain, the US, Canada, and Germany. Her articles have been published in newspapers and periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Commentary, The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal (Europe), The Times (UK), and The Telegraph Magazine. She was born in South Africa but made her home in London. All her early books were banned or embargoed in the land of her birth while it was under an all-white government. In 2007 she moved to California where she launched an online magazine, The Atheist Conservative.