Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of the Warsaw daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the Imre Nagy Award, and the Goethe Prize, among many other honors. His previous books include Letters from Prison, Letters from Freedom, and In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe. Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches East European literature at Princeton University. Her most recent books are Golden Harvest with Jan T. Gross and Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets.