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Simon Morrison is Professor of Music History at Princeton, where he earned his PhD in musicology. He is the author of The People’s Artist, a definitive account of Prokofiev’s career after his fateful return to the Soviet Union in 1936, along with numerous articles and essays in leading scholarly journals, and features for the New York Times. Morrison was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011.

Books by Simon Morrison

A Kingdom and a Village

A deeply learned yet highly readable and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics.

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The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev

The dramatic untold story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev: a tale of a doomed love and a shattering portrait of an artist

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