Andrew Meier is the author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall and The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service–both published W.W. Norton and named books of the year by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR.

Fluent in Russian, Andrew has reported on Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus for two decades. A Moscow correspondent for Time, 1996-2001, he is currently a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. The recipient of fellowships from the NEH, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Andrewwas most recently the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library.

His writing on foreign and political affairs have also appeared in Harper’s, The Financial Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, National Geographic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Outside, The Washington Post, among many other publications. A contributor to The New York Times Book Review, he has also reported for PBS television documentaries–most recently, a Bill Moyers Special on 9/11–and appeared as a frequent commentator on the BBC, CNN, and NPR.