Andrew Meier papers, 1917-2007

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Summary

Creators:
Meier, Andrew
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.
Extent:
14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (6.2 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Andrew Meier papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
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.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2010.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Andrew Meier papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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