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Duncan White is a journalist and academic who combines his position as Associate Director of the History & Literature department at Harvard University with his role as a lead book reviewer and feature writer for the Telegraph. He is the author of Nabokov and His Books, and has established himself as a scholarly authority on mid-century American and Russian literature, with a particular focus on the Cold War. After completing his DPhil at Oxford, he moved to the United States where he was appointed a Newhouse research fellow at Wellesley College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Duncan is British and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller - Kirkus Absorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history - The Times A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions - Sunday Times Duncan White's fascinating new book on the role of literature in the Cold War . . . It frequently grips like a thriller, even in the sections in which White is dealing with intellectual ideas rather than blackmail and violence - Sunday Telegraph White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre - Sunday Times
