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Jeffrey Tayler

Jeffrey Tayler is a U.S.-born author and journalist. He is the Russia correspondent for the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and a contributor to several other magazines as well as to NPR's All Things Considered. He has written several non-fiction books about different regions of the world which include ''Facing the Congo'', ''Siberian Dawn'', ''Glory in a Camel's Eye'', and ''Angry Wind'', the latter being a portrait of a journey through the Muslim portion of black Africa. ''River of no Reprieve'' is about a challenging raft trip down Russia's Lena River. Tayler holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University, and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Virginia.

Tayler is an accomplished polyglot; in addition to his native English, he is fluent in Russian, Arabic, French, and modern Greek, and has a functioning knowledge of Spanish and Turkish.

He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1988 to 1990.

Since the summer of 1993, he has lived in Moscow. Provided by Wikipedia