Bob Blaisdell

About The Author

Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough College and the author of Creating Anna Karenina. He is a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Science Monitor, and the editor of more than three dozen Dover literature and poetry collections, including a collection of Chekhov's love stores.  He lives in New York City.

Books by Bob Blaisdell

Chekhov Becomes Chekhov

The Emergence of a Literary Genius

By Bob Blaisdell
A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
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Creating Anna Karenina

Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine

By Bob Blaisdell
The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.
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