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Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction.
* She was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1967.
* Her father is a Lithuanian refugee who was imprisoned in a Soviet gulag.
* Sepetys earned a BS in International Finance from Hillsdale College.
* She worked in the music industry in Los Angeles before becoming a writer.
* Her debut novel, "Between Shades of Gray," was published in 2011.
* The book was a New York Times bestseller and won the Carnegie Medal.
* Sepetys has written four other novels, all of which have been bestsellers.
* She is a passionate advocate for human rights and education.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.