Author: Anatoliĭ Naumovich Rybakov
Born: 14 January 1911
Died: 23 December 1998
Bio: Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в) was a Russian/Soviet writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel *Heavy Sand*, and many popular children books including *Adventures of Krosh*, *Dirk* and *Bronze Bird*. One of the last of his works was his memoir *The Novel of Memoirs* (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. Writer Maria Rybakova is his granddaughter.