Author Peter Finn Speaks on “The Zhivago Affair”

 Peter Finn, The Washington Post National Security Editor and one-half of the team that wrote “The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book,” will speak at the Olympia Timberland Library, Wednesday, August 6, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m.

Finn and his co-author, Petra Couvee, bring to light a story that has stayed behind the historical scenes for decades, a cold war drama in which Russian novelist Boris Pasternak’s literary masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, became a pawn of two super-powers. Learn more about “The Zhivago Affair” at National Public Radio and theguardian.com.