Katherine Tiernan O'Connor

Katherine Tiernan O'Connor is Professor Emerita of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her publications include Boris Pasternak’s ‘My Sister-Life’: The Illusion of Narrative (1989); “Rereading Lolita, Reconsidering Nabokov’s Relationship with Dostoevsky” (1989); numerous articles on Chekhov, including “Writing in English with a Chekhov Muse” (2007) and two articles in Chekhov’s Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics (2018). Her new translations of two Chekhov stories appear in Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories (2014). She co-translated with Diana Lewis Burgin Sergei Dovlatov’s The Invisible Book (1979) and “Somebody’s Death” (1981) in addition to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (Vintage International, 1996), which is still in print.