Vanora Bennett

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 Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, winning an US Overseas Press Club award for her writing on Russia. She now lives in Britain and has won the Orwell Prize for political writing for her work at The Times. She is the author of six novels, from Portrait of an Unknown Woman to Midnight in St Petersburg and the current The White Russian, as well as of two books of non-fiction.