Fen montaigne biography of abraham

About Fen Montaigne

 

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fen grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in international relations. After university he spent a-year-and-a-half traveling around the world, working in Iran and Japan.

He began his newspaper career at The Houma Courier, a small paper in the Louisiana bayou, then went on to write for The News & Courier in Charleston, S.C. and The States Item and Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1982 and spent 15 years at the newspaper, initially covering the Atlantic City casino industry and organized crime.

From 1990 to 1993, Fen was Moscow correspondent for the Inquirer and Knight-Ridder newspapers, covering Michael Gorbachev, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of the new Russia. He received a citation for excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his reporting from the former U.S.S.R.

 

In 1994 and 1995, Fen wrote an ou