Jeffrey Tayler

Jeffrey Tayler is a U.S.-born author and journalist. He is the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and a contributor to several other magazines as well as to NPR's All Things Considered. He has written several non-fiction books about different regions of the world which include "Facing the Congo", "Siberian Dawn", "Glory in a Camel's Eye", and "Angry Wind", the latter being a portrait of a journey through the Muslim portion of black Africa. His most recent book, "River of No Reprieve", is about a challenging raft trip down Russia's Lena River.

Tayler is an accomplished linguist; in addition to his native English, he is fluent in Russian, Arabic, French, and modern Greek, and has a functioning knowledge of Spanish and Turkish. [ [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=8059 Houghton Mifflin author bio: Jeffrey Tayler] ]

He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1988 to 1990.

Since the summer of 1993, he has lived in Moscow. [ [http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/tayler.html Rolf Potts' vagabonding update: Jeffrey Tayler] ]

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