Alexandra Popoff is the author of two books of nonfiction, Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography (2010) and The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants (2012). Born and educated in Moscow, she wrote for Russian national newspapers and magazines early... Read full bio
Q. What is your motto or maxim?A. You live and learn.Q. What’s your fantasy profession?A. Being an oceanographerQ. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?A. A new talent? I’d like make use of my existing talents – and hope there’s enough time to develop them.Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?A.
Jane Austen, perhaps; I’d like to compare notes with her about the state of publishing back then and now.
Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?A. I want to be myself and to make the best use of my abilities.Learn more about Alexandra Popoff
...Founders and Finance,” Thomas McCraw “Sincerity,” R. Jay Magill Jr. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” Rian Malan “The Wives,” Alexandra Popoff “The Astaires,” Kathleen Riley “The Signal and the Noise,” Nate Silver ...
...Livingstone (St Andrew Press, £24.99) is a good look at the wife of a great man, and Alexandra Popoff’s The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants (Pegasus Books, £18.99) is another excellent book in a similar vein. It’s always...
...BIOGRAPHY THE WIVES The Women Behind Russias Literary Giants By Alexandra Popoff Pegasus. 332 pp. $27.95 The world knows and celebrates the most renowned Russian writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mandelstam, Nabokov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn but...
...— and Stop Dieting Forever" by Dee McCaffrey "The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants" by Alexandra Popoff "The Zodiac Killer Cover-up: AKA the Silenced Badge" by Lyndon E. Lafferty "Undefeated: Inside the 1972 Miami Dolphins' Perfect...
...during her marriage to the author of Lolita. The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants by Alexandra Popoff Pegasus Books, 400pp, £18.99 But the implication that such great works would not be possible without the women behind the scenes...
...THE WIVES: THE WOMEN BEHIND RUSSIA?S LITERARY GIANTSBy Alexandra PopoffPegasus Books, $27.95, 332 pages Alexandra Popoff?s ?The Wives? is a book that most women will love and most feminists will hate ? the story of six great Russian literary...
...Founders and Finance,” Thomas McCraw “Sincerity,” R. Jay Magill Jr. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” Rian Malan “The Wives,” Alexandra Popoff “The Astaires,” Kathleen Riley “The Signal and the Noise,” Nate Silver ...
...Livingstone (St Andrew Press, £24.99) is a good look at the wife of a great man, and Alexandra Popoff’s The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants (Pegasus Books, £18.99) is another excellent book in a similar vein. It’s always...
...“The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants” by Alexandra Popoff Have an interest in this Story? Sign Up for Real-Time email updates BIOGRAPHY THE WIVES The Women Behind Russias Literary Giants By Alexandra PopoffPegasus. 332 pp....
...BIOGRAPHY THE WIVES The Women Behind Russias Literary Giants By Alexandra Popoff Pegasus. 332 pp. $27.95 The world knows and celebrates the most renowned Russian writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mandelstam, Nabokov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn but...
...— and Stop Dieting Forever" by Dee McCaffrey "The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants" by Alexandra Popoff "The Zodiac Killer Cover-up: AKA the Silenced Badge" by Lyndon E. Lafferty "Undefeated: Inside the 1972 Miami Dolphins' Perfect...
...during her marriage to the author of Lolita. The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants by Alexandra Popoff Pegasus Books, 400pp, £18.99 But the implication that such great works would not be possible without the women behind the scenes...
...THE WIVES: THE WOMEN BEHIND RUSSIA?S LITERARY GIANTSBy Alexandra PopoffPegasus Books, $27.95, 332 pages Alexandra Popoff?s ?The Wives? is a book that most women will love and most feminists will hate ? the story of six great Russian literary...