Andrew Nagorski

Andrew Nagorski (born 1947) is an American journalist and author. He worked as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek for over thirty years. From 2008 to 2014, he was vice-president and director of public policy for EastWest Institute. His most recent book, Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom, was published in 2022.

Early life and education Nagorski was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Polish parents, Zygmunt Witold Nagorski Jr. and Maria Bogdaszewska in 1947. They then emigrated to the United States in 1948. He attended school overseas while his father was in the United States Foreign Service.

He earned a BA magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1969, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Prior to joining Newsweek, Nagorski taught social studies at Wayland High School in Massachusetts.

From January 2000 to 2008, Nagorski was a senior editor for Newsweek in New York, after his time as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in various cities. Nagorski worked to establish editorial collaboration between Newsweek International and its network of foreign-language editions and joint venture partners, including Newsweek Russia, which was launched in June 2004, and Newsweek Polska. From 2008 to April 2014, Nagorski served as Vice-President and Director of Public Policy at the EastWest Institute, where he focused on international relations and policy development. He also continues to write reviews and commentaries for Newsweek International. Nagorski has received three awards from the Overseas Press Club for his international reporting.

In 2014, former President of Poland Lech Walesa presented the "Lech Walesa Media Award" to Nagorski "for dedication to the cause of freedom and writing about Poland's history and culture."

Literary works

Non-fiction Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union, New Republic/Henry Holt, 1985 The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe, Simon & Schuster, 1993 The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II, Simon & Schuster, 2007 Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power, Simon & Schuster, 2012 The Nazi Hunters, Simon & Schuster, 2016 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War, Simon & Schuster, 2019 "Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom", Simon & Schuster, 2022

Fiction Nagorski's first novel, Last Stop Vienna, about a young German who joins the early Nazi movement and then confronts Hitler, was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2003.

Personal life Nagorski resides in St. Augustine, Florida.