Isaak babel biography

Nationality: Russian. Born: Odessa, 1 July 1894. Education: Educated in Nikolaev; Nicholas I Commercial School, Odessa, 1905-11; Institute of Financial and Business Studies, Kiev, later in Saratov, 1911-15, graduated 1915.

Military Service: Served in the army, 1917-18.

Isaak babel biography

Family: Married Evgeniia Gronfein in 1919; one daughter. Also one daughter by Antonina Pirozhkova. Career: Lived in St. Petersburg from 1918 and worked on Gor'kii's magazine New Life, 1918; editor, Ukranian State Publishing House, 1919-20; news service correspondent with First Cavalry on the Polish campaign, 1920, and correspondent for Tiflis newspaper in Caucasus.

In Moscow from 1923; secretary of the village soviet at Molodenovo, 1930; out of favor in the 1930s and arrested, 1939. Died: 17 March 1941.

Publications

Collections

Collected Stories, edited by Walter Morison.

1955.

Izbrannoe. 1957; another edition, 1966.

Destvo i drugie rasskazy [Childhood and Ot