Andrew Nagorski
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Andrew Nagorski (born 1947[1]) is an award-winning senior editor at Newsweek magazine. He has served in a variety of news reporting positions throughout the world. In addition, Nagorski is an author of both fiction and non-fiction books. He presently serves as senior editor of the international division of the magazine.[2]
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[edit] Early life
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland of Polish parents (who shortly after his birth emigrated to the United States), he attended school overseas while his father was in the United States Foreign Service. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1969 and studied at the University of Cracow. Nagorski taught social studies at Wayland High School in Massachusetts before joining Newsweek.
[edit] News reporting
After joining Newsweek International in 1973 as an associate editor, he was its assistant managing editor from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1980, Nagorski was the Hong Kong-based Asian regional editor for Newsweek International and then as Hong Kong Bureau Chief.
From 1990 to 1994, he served as Newsweek’s Warsaw bureau chief, and he has served two tours of duty as Newsweek’s Moscow bureau chief, first in the early 1980s and then from 1995 to 1996. In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. After spending the next two and a half years as Rome bureau chief, he became Bonn bureau chief.
As Berlin bureau chief from 1996 to 1999, Nagorski provided in-depth reporting about Germany's efforts to overcome the legacy of division, the immigration debate, and German-Jewish relations. From Berlin, Nagorski also covered Central Europe, taking advantage of his long experience in the region and his knowledge of Polish, Russian, German and French.
Nagorski has been in New York as a senior editor for since January 2000, after serving as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin. In his new job, Nagorski is developing the editorial cooperation between Newsweek International and its network of foreign language editions and other joint venture partners. The most recent additions have been Newsweek Russia, which was launched in June 2004, and Newsweek Polska. Nagorski also continues to write reviews and commentaries for Newsweek International. He has been honored three times by the Overseas Press Club for his reporting.[2]
[edit] Author
[edit] Non-fiction
Nagorski is the author of the non-fiction books Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union (New Republic/Henry Holt, 1985) and The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe (Simon & Schuster, 1993). His latest book, The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II, was published by Simon & Schuster in early September 2007. He presented it at a reading in the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa September 10th, 2007.
[edit] Fiction
His first novel, Last Stop Vienna, about a young German who joins the early Nazi movement and then is propelled into a confrontation with Hitler, was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2003. Called a “fast-moving, riveting debut novel” by Publishers Weekly, it has appeared on the Washington Post’s bestseller list.
[edit] Other roles
In 1988, Nagorski took a one-year leave of absence to serve as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank in Washington, D.C.[3] In recent years, he has also served as an adjunct professor at the Bard College Center for Globalization and International Affairs, teaching a course on international affairs writing. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club.
[edit] References
- ^ Harper's bio
- ^ a b Meet Newsweek: Andrew Nagorski, Senior Editor, International (English). msnbc.msn.com (2004-09-04). Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
- ^ David L. Wilson. "Washington's Movers and Shakers; Security", National Journal, 1989-09-09.
