Amy Knight

Who is Amy Knight?

Amy W. Knight is an American historian of the Soviet Union and of Russia. She has been described by The New York Times as "the West's foremost scholar" of the KGB.

Amy Knight was born in Chicago in 1946. She gained a BA at the University of Michigan. She went on to gain a PhD degree in Russian politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1977. She taught at the LSE, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and at Carleton University. She also worked for eighteen years at the U.S. Library of Congress as a specialist in Russian and Soviet affairs. Knight also writes for The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The Globe and Mail.

In 1993–94, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

She and her husband Malcolm have three children.