Michael Scammell

Michael Scammell is Professor of Writing and Translation at Columbia. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has just completed a biography of Arthur Koestler. (November 2005)

From the Review

March 9, 2006: The Willi Münzenberg Mystery (letter)

November 3, 2005: The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West by Sean McMeekin

Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus

June 15, 2000: Writing about Koestler (letter)

December 3, 1998: The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago

Alexander Solzhenitsyn:A Century in His Life by D.M. Thomas

September 24, 1998: Loyal Toward Reality

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz

Mysticism for Beginners by Adam Zagajewski

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination by Adam Zagajewski

Winter Dialogue by Tomas Venclova, translated by Diana Senechal

November 2, 1995: Just Like Old Times

October 24, 1991: Four Poems by Edvard Kocbek (poem)

October 24, 1991: Slovenia and Its Poet

October 11, 1990: 'The New Yugoslavia': An Exchange

August 16, 1990: Yugoslav Troubles (letter)

July 19, 1990: The New Yugoslavia

Human Rights in Yugoslavia edited by Oskar Gruenwald, edited by Karen Rosenblum-Cale

Yugoslavia: Prisoners of Conscience

June 28, 1990: Yugoslavia: the Awakening

June 29, 1989: Langston Hughes in the USSR (letter)

February 28, 1985: Chameleon

Ilya Ehrenburg: Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propagandist—The Extraordinary Epic of a Russian Survivor material by by Anatol Goldberg, with an introduction, postscript, and additional Erik de Mauny

April 15, 1982: The Azadovsky Case

Books by Michael Scammell

Solzhenitsyn: A Biography (1984)
Russia's Other Writers (1970)