Antonina Riasanovsky

Antonina Riasanovsky (March 8, 1895 – February 1985) was a Russian Empire-born writer who, under the pen name Nina Fedorova, wrote ''The Family'', the tenth highest selling fiction book in the United States 1940. The book won the 1940 $10,000 fiction novel prize from the Atlantic Monthly. ''The Family'' tells the story of an exiled White Russian family in Tianjin, China. Provided by Wikipedia