Orbit: Mikhail Prokhorov

by Tony Laplume

As a leading industrialist in Russia’s precious metals sector, Mikhail
Prokhorov quickly rose to become the 7th richest man in the country. He
ran against the mighty Vladimir Putin in the 2012 presidential elections
and purchased the NBA team the Nets, moving the former Garden Staters to
Brooklyn this year. As the center of his fair share of controversies
over the years, the Russian billionaire has become one of the most
talked about figures in Europe and beyond.

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Tony Laplume was born in 1980, spent a few years in Rhode Island, but started making his mark in the world when his family relocated to Maine, where he attended every year of his schooling, including college at the University of Maine in Orono (except for a year at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English. In high school, he created the comic strip "Newsroom" for the Academic Advocate, which published it from 1998-1999. He wrote a regular opinion column for UMaine's Maine Campus from 2002-2003. He co-founded and worked on the Hemlock literary journal from 2003-2004. In 2007, he co-created the short-lived literary journal Dead Letter Quarterly with A.C. Hall and Derek Koch. He also self-published The Cloak of Shrouded Men that year. He has since completed two additional novels, Pale Moonlight and The Whole Bloody Affair.