Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, dubbed the most widely read book about China by The Asian Wall Street Journal, and Mao: The Unknown Story (co-authored with Jon Halliday), dubbed an atom bomb of a book by Time. Outside of mainland China, where they are both banned, her works have been translated into over forty languages and sold over fifteen million copies. She was born in 1952 in China and moved to the United Kingdom in 1978. She is based in London.