Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Alternate names: Mikhail Sholokhov; Sholokhov Mikhail.; Mikhail Aleksandrovitch SHOLOKHOV; Mikhaīl Aleksandrovich Sholokhov; Mīkhaīl Aleksandrovīch Sholokhov
Born: 24 May 1905
Died: 21 February 1984
Bio: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. 
He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, *And Quiet Flows the Don*.