Lynn Solotaroff
Deceased Person
1929 – 1994
Who was Lynn Solotaroff?
Lynn Solotaroff was an American translator of Tolstoy and Chekhov, among others, from Russian to English. She was also an academic and educator.
She was born as Lynn Friedman in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the University of Michigan and studied Russian as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. She was a visiting scholar at the then-Russian Institute at Columbia University -- now known as the Harriman Institute -- and worked as its director of publications from 1977 to 1985.
Among the books she translated was Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Man with the Shattered World by Alexander Luria. She also contributed to Avrahm Yarmolinsky's translation of Letters of Anton Chekhov.
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1929
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- 1994
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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