Alexei Orlov

Alexei Orlov graduated Leningrad University with degrees in Geography (1962) and Journalism (1969). In the Soviet Union, he worked as a geologist and a journalist. He came to the United States as a political refugee, in 1977. His first job in America was the graveyard janitorial shift at New York City's LaGuardia airport. Then he graduated to lab animal caretaker at a medical research laboratory, and, later, a taxi driver. In 1979, he was one of the founders of the weekly Russian-language newspaper Novy Amerikanets (The New American). For over twenty years, Alexei headed up the news department at the daily Russian-language newspaper Novoye Russkoe Slovo (The New Russian Word). Currently, he is a regular contributor to the Russian-language weeklies Panorama (Los Angeles), and Philadelphia, and the host of Moya America (My America) talk show on Russian-language radio stations in New York City and Chicago. The Shadow of the Tekumseh Curse over the White House is Alexei's first American book

Alexei and his cat Vasya (Basil) live in the North Carolina mountains, near Asheville.