Anna Pitoniak on Why Women Make Better Spies
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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Andrew talks to Anna Pitoniak, author of The Helsinki Affair, about the art of espionage and the tradecraft of the spy novelist.
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Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures, Necessary People, Our American Friend, and The Helsinki Affair. She graduated from Yale, where she majored in English and was an editor at the Yale Daily News. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. Anna grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City and East Hampton. You can find her newsletter about writing, publishing, and creativity on Substack.
