Vanora Bennett studied Russian at Oxford University and in the USSR. She began her career as a journalist at Reuters and went on to serve as the Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, winning a U.S. Overseas Press Club award for her writing. She now lives in Britain and has won the Orwell Prize for political writing for her work at The Times (UK). She is the author of four novels, including PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN and MIDNIGHT IN ST. PETERSBURG, and two books of nonfiction.

Vanora Bennett