Joseph Finder

A Chicago native who spent his early years abroad, he pursued Russian studies at Yale, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, then earned a master’s at Harvard’s Russian Research Center and taught on its faculty before turning to fiction. His nonfiction debut Red Carpet (1983) examined Soviet-American business ties, and his first novel, The Moscow Club (1991), imagined a KGB coup. Success… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources