Sophia Tolstoy A Biography |
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| Author:
| Popoff, Alexandra |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4165-9759-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2010 |
| Publisher: | Free Press
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| Imprint: | Free Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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Alexandra Popoff grew up in Moscow where she was educated at the Gorky Literary Institute and then worked as a feature writer and editor atThe Literary Gazette,a major writers' newspaper. In 1992 she emigrated to Saskatchewan, where she earned master's degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and in English Literature from the University of Saskatchewan. Her scholarly publications have appeared in theCanadian Journal of History,Slavic and East European...
More DescriptionAlexandra Popoff grew up in Moscow where she was educated at the Gorky Literary Institute and then worked as a feature writer and editor atThe Literary Gazette,a major writers' newspaper. In 1992 she emigrated to Saskatchewan, where she earned master's degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and in English Literature from the University of Saskatchewan. Her scholarly publications have appeared in theCanadian Journal of History,Slavic and East European Journal,Canadian Slavonic Papers, andVoprosy Literatury(Moscow). She presented papers on Sophia Tolstoy's prose at the Tolstoy conference at Harvard (?The Over-Examined Life: New Perspectives on Tolstoy,? 2002) and the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Saskatoon. She lives in Canada.