Zimmermann, Warren

Warren Zimmermann spent thirty-three years as an officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, serving in France, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, and as our last ambassador to Yugoslavia. He has taught at Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities and is the author of "Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers," which won the American Academy of Diplomacy Book Award in 1997. His work has appeared in "The New York Review of Books, Newsweek, The National Interest," and national newspapers. He and his wife live in the Washington, D.C., area.