A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Remnick was a reporter for the Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine’s editor since 1998. His last book was King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, that was selected by Time magazine as the top nonfiction book of the year. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.