Igor Vishnevetsky was born in 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University, and in 1996 received a PhD in Slavic languages from Brown University in the United States. Vishnevetsky has authored six collections of poetry, two monographs-one on Andrei Bely, the other on the Russian emigre composers of the 1920s and 1930s-and a ... Read more700-page-long biography of Sergei Prokofiev. Vishnevetsky splits his time between the US and Russia. Victor Pelevin is one of Russia's most successful post-Soviet writers. He won the Russian Booker prize in 1993 Born on November 22, 1962 in Moscow, he attended the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, and the Institute of Literature. He's now been published throughout Europe. His books include "A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, Omon Ra", "The Blue Lantern", "The Yellow Arrow", and "The Hall of the Singing Caryatids". Show Less