Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was educated in Moscow and at the
School of Military Engineers in St. Petersburg, where he spent four
years. In 1844 he resigned his Commission in the army to devote
himself to literature. In 1846, he wrote his first novel, which won
immediate critical and popular success. At the age of twenty-seven
he was arrested for belonging to a socialist group and condemned to
death, but at the last moment, his sentence was commuted to prison
in Siberia. In 1859, he was granted full amnesty and allowed to
return to St. Petersburg. In the fourteen years before his death on
January 28, 1881, Dostoyevsky produced his greatest works including
Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed.
Ben Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, a
collection of stories, and the novel Notable American Women. Editor
of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, he is on the
faculty of Columbia University and has received a Whiting Award and
a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His essays have appeared
in Time, Feed, Tin House, McSweeny's, Bomb, Grand Street, the
Pushcart Prize anthology, and Conjunctions.
Andrew R. MacAndrew (1911-2001) was a professor at the University
of Virginia and an acclaimed translator of Russian literature. In
addition to fiction by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, and others, he
translated A Precocious Autobiography by poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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