Playwright (17-Jan-1860 — 15-Jul-1904)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Lydia Avilov. Translated by David Magarshack. Chekhov in My Life: A Love Story. London: John Lehmann. 1950. 152pp.

Rosamund Bartlett. Chekhov. Simon & Schuster. 2005. 432pp.

Jean Benedetti (also translator) (editor). Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press. 1997. 292pp.

Walter H. Bruford. Chekhov and His Russia: A Sociological Study. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. 1947. 233pp.

Philip Callow. Chekhov: The Hidden Ground: A Biography. Ivan R. Dee. 1998. 416pp.

Victor Emeljanow (editor). Chekhov: The Critical Heritage. New York, NY: Routledge. 1981. 471pp.

Michael C. Finke. Seeing Chekhov. Cornell University Press. 2005. 272pp.

William Gerhardi. Anton Chekhov: A Critical Study. New York: Duffield. 1923.

Lillian Hellman (editor). The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov. Picador. 1984. 332pp.

Ronald Hingley. Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1950.

Ronald Hingley. A New Life of Anton Chekhov. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1976. 352pp.

Robert Louis Jackson (editor). Chekhov: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1967. 213pp.

Simon Karlinsky. Letters of Anton Chekhov. London: The Bodley Head. 1973. 494pp.

Sophie Laffitte. Chekhov, 1860-1904. London: Angus and Robertson. 1974. 246pp.

Frank Laurence Lucas. The Drama of Chekhov, Synge, Yeats, and Pirandello. Cassell. 1963. 452pp.

David Magarshack. Chekhov the Dramatist. London: John Lehmann. 1952. 301pp.

David Magarshack. The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. 1972. 249pp.

Janet Malcolm. Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. New York: Random House. 2001. 209pp.

V. S. Pritchett. Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1988. 235pp.

Donald Rayfield. Anton Chekhov: A Life. London: Harper/Collins. 1997. 674pp.

Ernest J. Simmons. Chekhov: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown. 1962. 669pp.

John L. Styan. Chekhov in Performance: A Commentary of the Major Plays. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 1978.

Nina Andronikova Toumanova. Anton Chekhov: The Voice of Twilight Russia. London: Jonathan Cape. 1937. 239pp.

Henri Troyat. Translated by Micheal Henry Heim (from French). Chekhov. E. P. Dutton. 1986.

Andrei Turkov. Translated by Cynthia Carlile; Sharon McKee (from Russian). Anton Chekhov and His Times. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press. 1995. 327pp.

Thomas Winner. Chekhov and his Prose. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1966. 264pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.142)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.299)

9. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.51)

10. European Authors 1000-1900 (pp.175-78)

11. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.192)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.107)

13. Slavonic Encyclopedia (p.146)

14. A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature (p.50)

15. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.120)

16. Atlantic: Brief Lives: A Biographical Companion to the Arts (pp.155-57)

17. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (pp.121-22)

18. Legends in Their Own Time (p.47)

19. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.34)

20. Makers of 19th Century Culture: 1800-1914 (p.84)

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