Nina George is a German writer, best known as the author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 28 languages as of 2015, selling more than 500,000 copies. She has published 26 books, encompassing novels, mysteries, and non-fiction, as well as over a hundred short stories and more than 600 columns.

George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist, and managing editor for various publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, and TV Movie and Federwelt. She writes under three pen names, including Anne West for non-fiction about love, sexuality, and eroticism; Nina Kramer for a thriller written in 2008; and Jean Bagnol for detective novels co-written with her husband Jo Kramer.

In 2012 and 2013, she won the DeLiA and the Glauser Prize. Her first bestselling novel was The Little Paris Bookshop (first published in German as Das Lavendelzimmer on May 2, 2013). Nina now resides in Concarneau, France, with her husband.

George is a member of the administrative board of the Collective Management Organisation VG Wort and serves as the chairwoman of the VG-Wort 'e-Book' working group.