Michael Scammell

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Michael Scammell (born 1935) is an English author, biographer and translator of Slavic literature.

Life

He was educated at the University of Nottingham, and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University where he is currently a professor of writing.^[1]

His work appears in the New York Review of Books,^[2] AGNI,^[3] and Harper's.^[4]

Works

Translations

• Vladimir Nabokov (1963). The Gift. Putnam.  (Vintage Books, 1991 ISBN 9780679727255)
• Anatoliĭ Marchenko (1969). My testimony. E. P. Dutton. 
• Michael Scammell, ed (1971). Russia's other writers: selections from Samizdat literature. Praeger. 
• Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ (1979). To build a castle: my life as a dissenter. Viking Press. ISBN 9780670716401. 
• Vladimir Nabokov (1990). The Defense. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679727224. 
• Konstantin Fedin (1993). Cities and years. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 9780810110663. http://books.google.com/books?id=e56i9PNscEMC&pg=PT1&dq=Michael+Scammell+Dostoyevsky. 
• Vladimir Nabokov (2000). The Luzhin Defense. Penguin. ISBN 9780141185989. 
• Leo Tolstoy (2002). Childhood, Boyhood and Youth. Random House, Inc.. ISBN 9780375759444. http://books.google.com/books?id=FLBWb7aER4cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Scammell. 
• Edvard Kocbek (2004). Nothing is Lost. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691118406. http://books.google.com/books?id=A7NhwrB1t1YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Scammell. 
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Biographies

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. Hutchinson. 1985. ISBN 9780091512804. 
• Michael Scammell, ed (1995). The Solzhenitsyn files: secret Soviet documents reveal one man's fight against the monolith. Translator Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. Edition q. ISBN 9781883695064. 
• Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic (New York: Random House, December 2009)^[5]

References

1. ^ PEN Biography
2. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/81
3. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Michael-Scammell.html
4. ^ http://www.harpers.org/subjects/MichaelScammell
5. ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/hitchens-koestler

External links

• Faculty home-page
• Washington Times review of Koestler - December 20, 2009

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