from 1964 to 1991, was the author, editor or translator of eight books, including "Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary" (1974), which Times critic Robert Kirsch said "may be the best single study of Chekhov ever done."Karlinsky also wrote two books on Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, including a 1986 biography in which he wrote frankly about her bisexuality. The Christian Science Monitor praised the book as "a model of cultural and historical interpretation of a major poet."
from Los Angeles Times: Simon Karlinsky dies at 84; expert on Slavic languages and literature
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