Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Vasily Grossman
Born: December 12, 1905
Died: September 14, 1964 (aged 58)
Bio: Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist. Grossman was trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed his career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels.
Known for:
- Life and Fate
- A Writer at War
- Everything Flows
- An Armenian Sketchbook
- Forever Flowing