STALIN'S SCRIBE: Literature, Ambition, and Survival--The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

Set during the most tumultuous years of the Soviet Union, this first-ever biography of a man who was one of his country's most prominent political figures is rich with intrigue. Boeck explores the nuances of the man who once held a nation in literary thrall and who has remained one of world literature's most contentious writers. Illus.