Ronny Hein is a writer, journalist and publicist. He was born in Brazil in 1955, ten years after the end of the Second World War. He is the son and son-in-law of concentration camp survivors. The stories of both his mother and father-in-law, among others, are told in this his eleventh book. Six of which have been published in Brazil.

As a journalist, he worked in television, radio and on newspapers and principally, magazines. He was a Director of the Brazilian edition of FORBES for four years, the Sunday magazine of the Jornal do Brasil and a number of others. His field of expertise, however, was in creating and directing travel magazines like Viagem e Turismo, Próxima Viagem, Caminhos da Terra, Top Destinos and Lonely Planet Brasil. In this role he had the opportunity to visit and write about 82 different countries.

As a publicist he was a copywriter at Delta Propaganda and a partner at Sven Hein & Associados Propaganda, both in São Paulo.

He has been awarded a number of prizes throughout his career, eight of which were from the European Tourism Commission. He also received a gold medal of merit from the French government, for his contribution to publicising tourism in France.