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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

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2010.

    Preferred Citation

    [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.

    Related Materials

    David Dallin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    John Hook papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    Herbert Solow papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
    Sam Tanenhaus papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Secret service -- Soviet Union
    Espionage, Russian -- United States
    Espionage, Russian
    Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
    Oggins, Isaiah