Simon Sebag Montefiore is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling books Young Stalin, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Catherine the Great & Potemkin.
Young Stalin has recently won the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, the Costa Biography Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature.
It has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Miramax Films and Ruby Films, in a co-production with FilmFour, are to make a movie of Young Stalin.
The paperback of Young Stalin is out now in the UK and from September in the USA (Vintage). All three of his Russian histories are available in paperback from Phoenix in the UK.
Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel Sashenka published under the name Simon Montefiore, is now out in hardback in the UK (Transworld) and will be published in the USA in November (Simon & Schuster). To find out more go to the Fiction page
For the author's most recent press profile, see the Vanity Fair interview here.