A writer, interpreter and academic who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Lynn Visson is an American of Russian background who is herself married to a Russian. Since 1980 she has been a staff inte…
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow to talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Though his parents were both Jewis…
Patsy M. Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal and Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on how instructio…
Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's appre…
Anna Starobinets (Russian: Анна Старобинец) is a young Russian journalist whose first book “An Awkward age” was nominated for the National Bestseller prestigious Russian prize as a manuscript – even b…
Eric Jorgenson is an entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is on the founding team of Zaarly, and has been publishing online since 2014. His blog has educated and entertained over a million readers.
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Naval Ravikant (B.S., Computer Science & Economics, Dartmouth College, 1995) is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList, and an angel investor who made early-stage investments in companies including …
Alexei Ivanov (Russian: Алексей Иванов) is a Russian award-winning writer. He is known for his books about the Urals. Ivanov’s novels have been nominated three times for the National Bestseller prize, …
