Robert Ford served as Ambassador to Colombia (1957-59), Yugoslavia (1959-61), the United Arab Republic (1961-63) and to the U.S.S.R. (1964-80). He is the author of: A Window on the North; The Solitary City; Holes in Space; Needle in the Eye; Russian Poetry: A Personal Anthology; Doors, Words and Silence; Dostoyevsky and Other Poems and Our Man in Moscow: Reflections on the Soviet Union from Stalin to Brezhnev. He currently resides in St. Sylvestre-Pragoulin, France.
