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Title: Andrew Meier papers
Dates: 1917-2007
Collection Number: 2010C16
Creator: Meier, Andrew.
Collection Size:
11 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(5.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Russian
German
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Andrew Meier papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2010.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
David Dallin papers, Hoover Institution Archives
John Hook papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Herbert Solow papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Sam Tanenhaus papers, Hoover Institution Archives
| 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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Espionage, Russian.
Espionage, Russian--United States.
Secret service--Soviet Union.
Oggins, Isaiah.