Anne FrymanAnne Frydman, born in the Bronx, raised in NYC, graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and earned a PhD in Russian literature and languages from Columbia University. She taught at Columbia, SUNY-Purchase, Princeton and Johns Hopkins University. She trnslated three books by Sergei Dovlatov, including Ours: A Russian Family Album, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Stories from the Dovlatov books appeared in The New Yorker. She also translated Osip Mandelstam's 394 from Voronezh Notebooks with Jean Valentine and co-translated At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel, by A.N. Pirozhkova. Anne's parents, Gregory and Gusta Frydman, were Holocaust survivors. She was married to the writer Stephen Dixon. Their daughters, Sophia and Antonia Frydman, live in New York. Anne died from complications of multiple sclerosis in 2009. Read More Read Less