Alexandra Popoff

Alexandra Popoff is a Russian-American biographer and literary scholar. Her book Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century is a comprehensive biography of Vasily Grossman, the Soviet journalist and novelist whose masterwork Life and Fate is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Popoff traces Grossman's life from his early career through the Second World War to his courageous struggle against Soviet censorship. Her audiobook offers listeners a deeply researched, illuminating portrait of a writer who risked everything to tell the truth about the Soviet experience.