Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist.
He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland..
He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years.
Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books .
He was murdered in Stalin\'s purges in 1940, at the age of 45.
The first major Russian-Jewish writer to write in Russian, he was hugely popular during his lifetime.
He joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Russian civil war.
Isaac Babel was a short-story writer, playwright, literary translator and journalist