His early stories appeared under pen names such as The Doctor Without Patients, and his long nonfiction work Sakhalin Island tells of a two-year trip he made there.
His early stories appeared under pen names such as The Doctor Without Patients, and his long nonfiction work Sakhalin Island tells of a two-year trip he made there. Hampered throughout his short life by a nasty case of tuberculosis, his first published volume was the short Tales of Melpomene. A friend of both Maksim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy, this man's other famous short stories include "The Steppe", "In the Ravine", and "The Lady with the Lapdog", but he may be best known for his plays. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
His early stories appeared under pen names such as The Doctor Without Patients, and his long nonfiction work Sakhalin Island tells of a two-year trip he made there.
Anton {Chekhov}