Andrew Marble, PhD, is the author of "Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s American Success." The book is the first-ever accounting of how a European prince-turned-stateless-penniless-WWII refugee rose to become chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the world’s most powerful military. The biography is part of the University Press of Kentucky’s American Warrior Series, put out in conjunction with the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) to be published in October 2019.
In both 2014 and 2016, Andrew was one of three finalists for the Biographer International Organization's Hazel Rowley Prize for best proposal for a first biography.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Brown University (200Andrew Marble, PhD, is the author of "Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s American Success." The book is the first-ever accounting of how a European prince-turned-stateless-penniless-WWII refugee rose to become chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the world’s most powerful military. The biography is part of the University Press of Kentucky’s American Warrior Series, put out in conjunction with the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) to be published in October 2019.
In both 2014 and 2016, Andrew was one of three finalists for the Biographer International Organization's Hazel Rowley Prize for best proposal for a first biography.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Brown University (2002); an MA in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University’s Fletcher School (1994); and a BA in East Asian Studies from Middlebury College (1990).
Prior to becoming a writer, Andrew was an editor who worked in the fields of Chinese politics, Taiwan Studies, U.S. policy to Asia, and international food policy. At the National Bureau of Asian Research, he was the founding editor of Asia Policy, a peer-reviewed journal bridging the gap between academic and policy research on Asia, and he edited five annual volumes of NBR's Strategic Asia. In Taiwan, he was the editor of Issues & Studies, as social science journal on China, Taiwan, and East Asia.