Michael Ignatieff is a London-based writer whose award-winning book and television series, Blood and Belonging, confronted the new face of ethnic nationalism in the 1990s. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, and is also the author of The Russian Album, a memoir; The Needs of Strangers, a study of altruism; and Scar Tissue, a novel that was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1993. His most recent book Isaiah Berlin: A Life was published in December 1998.