Person

Andrews, Kevin

1924–1989

Byron in a capsule for a coffee break, 1990: t.p. (Kevin Andrews) p. 19 (b. Peking 1924; d. 1989). - American philhellene, writer and archaeologist. In 1947, archaeologist Kevin Andrews went to the Peloponnese on a Fulbright fellowship to study the Crusader castles and found a country in the midst of a civil war. He was one of the few foreigners there at the time, which his book vividly brings to life.. after a first rather idyllic description of stomping on grapes with friends on Paros he enters another world. Yet he was so moved by the humanity of the villagers in a period of great poverty, suspicion, and turmoil that he made Greece his home, and wrote numerous other books about Greece,