Fen montaigne biography

After university he spent a-year-and-a-half traveling around the world, working in Iran and Japan....

Speaker Biography: Fen Montaigne is a journalist, author, and editor who specializes in the environment, science, and international affairs.

Fen Montaigne is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and The Wall Street Journal.

After university he spent a-year-and-a-half traveling around the world, working in Iran and Japan.

Born July 9, , in NC; son of Gerald and Anne Montaigne; married Laurie Hays (an editor for the Wall Street Journal), April 17, ; children: Claire.

Fen Montaigne is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and The Wall Street Journal.

Montaigne, Fen 1952–

PERSONAL:

Born July 9, 1952, in NC; son of Gerald and Anne Montaigne; married Laurie Hays (an editor for the Wall Street Journal), April 17, 1982; children: Claire, Nuni.

Education: Attended the University of Virginia.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Pelham, NY. [email protected].

CAREER:

Journalist. Former Moscow Bureau Chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, 1995.

WRITINGS:

(With Oleg Kalugin) The First Directorate: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage against the West, St.

Martin's Press/Dunne (New York, NY), 1994.

Hooked: Fly-fishing through Russia, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (London, England), 1998.

(With Stanley Williams) Surviving Galeras, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2001.

Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR,National Geographic Society (Washington, DC), 2001.

Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering,Johns Hopkins Unive