Moscow to the End of the Line

Vera Sandomirsky Dunham, 1913 - 2001 Vera Sandormirsky Dunham was born in 1913. She earned her secondary education in the Soviet Union and Germany, she studied German and Slavic Philology and literature in German, French and Belgian Universities. She attained her doctorate degree in 1935 in Slavic Philology from the University of Erlangen in germany and another degree from the University of Brussels. In 1940, she emigrated to the United States and was an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington from 1944 to 1945. She is perhaps best known for her translation and critiques of Russian poetry and prose.

Dunham taught in the Slavic Department at Wayne State University in Detroit from 1945 to 1976. She was a member of the Slavic review and translated poems and prose into English from Russian poets. After retiring form Wayne State, she taught or several years at Queens College, Columbia and assorted other universities. Her most well known book was entitled "In Stalin's Time: Middle Class Values in Soviet Fiction".

Vera Sandormirsky Dunham died on March 22, 2001 in Cambridge Massachusetts at the age of 88.