Vladimir Volkoff (1932–2005) was born in Paris,
the son of White Russian émigrés. He was a member of the faculty of
Agnes Scott College and taught creative writing at Mercer
University. Holder of a doctoral degree from the Université de
Liège, he was an intelligence officer in the French army during the
Algerian War. Known primarily for his espionage fiction, he was a
prolific writer who also published essays, poems, plays,
biographies, science fiction, and the wildly popular Lieutenant X
spy novels for youth. He was made a chevalier of the Légion
d’Honneur and won many literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du
Roman, awarded by the French Academy.
John Marson Dunaway has taught French and
interdisciplinary studies at Mercer University since 1972. He is a
native Georgian and holds a BA from Emory and an MA and PhD from
Duke University.
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