Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Owen Matthews was born in London and spent part of his childhood in America. He studied modern history at Oxford University before beginning his career as a journalist in Bosnia. In 1995, he accepted a job at the Moscow Times, a daily English language newspaper. He also freelanced for a number of publications including The Times, the Spectator and the Independent. In 1997, he became a correspondent at Newsweek magazine in Moscow, where he covered the second Chechen war, as well as politics and society. Owen was also one of the first journalists to witness the start of the US bombing of Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley in 2001, and went on to cover the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Owen is currently Newsweek magazine’s bureau chief in Moscow, where he lives with his wife and two children.