Taylor Baldwin Kiland has written, coauthored, ghostwritten, or edited twenty-one books, including two about our nation's POWs: Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton: Six Characteristics of High-Performance Teams and Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later.

A former naval officer-the third generation in her family to serve in the Navy-Taylor was raised in Coronado, California, and Virginia, where she grew up with many of the Vietnam POW and MIA families. She lives with her husband and daughter in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.