Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale is an award-winning writer and historian, known for her acclaimed and pioneering books on Russian history. She studied history at King's College, Cambridge, and held posts at various British universities including Cambridge, Bristol and London. She has travelled extensively in Russia and what was once the Soviet Empire. Her books include Lenin on the Train and Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Pushkin House Prize and Wolfson History Prize in 2014. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and previous books have been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and have won the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize. She is a fellow of the British Academy. Moscow Underground is her first work of fiction.