Michael Scammell, biographer, critic and translator, was born in Lyndhurst, England, and moved permanently to the USA in 1985. He has written award-winning biographies of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Arthur Koestler, and has translated many books from Russian, including works by Tolstoy,...
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Michael Scammell, biographer, critic and translator, was born in Lyndhurst, England, and moved permanently to the USA in 1985. He has written award-winning biographies of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Arthur Koestler, and has translated many books from Russian, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn. He is the founder of the British human rights magazine, Index on Censorship, and has taught at Cornell and Columbia universities. He lives in New York City.
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