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Title: Andrew Meier papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-2007
Collection Number: 2010C16
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(6.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection primarily consists of research materials for Andrew Meier's book
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York, 2008). This research material includes correspondence and notes; photocopies of correspondence and of genealogical
and biographical data; photocopies of investigative, consular and other government documents; and printed matter. The bulk
of the research materials directly relate to Soviet espionage in the United States and elsewhere, and especially to the case
of Isaiah Oggins.
Creator:
Meier, Andrew
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2010.
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[Identification of item], Andrew Meier papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
1985 |
B.A., Wesleyan University |
1989 |
B.A. (M.A.), Russian Language and Literature, Oxford University |
1989-1992 |
Freelance writer |
1989-Present |
Contributor to periodicals, including
Harper's,
New Republic,
New York Times Magazine,
National Geographic,
Orion,
Outside,
Washington Post,
Wired, and
Time
|
1995-1996 |
Contributor, Pacific News Service, San Francisco, California |
1996 |
Reported from Afghanistan |
1996-2001 |
Moscow correspondent,
Time magazine
|
2001-2002 |
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. |
circa 2003-Present |
Writer in residence, Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College, New York, New York |
2003 |
Author,
Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
2005 |
Author,
Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict (contains excerpts from
Black Earth) (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
2008 |
Author,
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
Honors include Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow; Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers & Scholars at the New York
Public Library; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Alicia Patterson
Foundation Fellow
Sources:
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
"Andrew Meier - Assistant Professor" Eugene Lang College Faculty.
The New School for Liberal Arts. n.d. Web. 24 August 2010.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection primarily consists of research materials for Andrew Meier's book
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York, 2008). This research material includes correspondence and notes; photocopies of correspondence and of genealogical
and biographical data; photocopies of investigative, consular and other government documents; and printed matter. The bulk
of the research materials directly relate to Soviet espionage in the United States and elsewhere, and especially to the case
of Isaiah Oggins.
Materials of note in the collection include the detailed genealogical and biographical data Meier compiled regarding Isaiah
Oggins and his family (
Oggins family related materials ) as well as Meier's detailed research on Oggins' contemporaries and incidents relating to the Communist Party in the United
States. The original order of the materials has been maintained.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Secret service -- Soviet Union
Espionage, Russian -- United States
Espionage, Russian
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Oggins, Isaiah