Books By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak - Author

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February 1890 - 30 May 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian and Soviet poet of Jewish descent, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare. In Russia, Pasternak is most celebrated as a poet. My Sister Life, written in 1917, is one of the most influential collections of poetry published in the Russian language in the 20th century. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the last period of the Russian Empire and the early days of the Soviet Union.

James E. Falen is an emeritus professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee. He is the translator of acclaimed editions of Pushkin's Selected Lyric Poetry (NUP). Falen's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is widely considered to be the one most faithful to Pushkin's spirit.