Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ) . In 1945, Solzhenitsyn, then a captain in the Russian Army, was sent to prison camp for having written a letter critical of Stalin. His novels - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The First Circle (1964) - and the three volumes of the nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 (published in the 1970's) are based on his prison experiences. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Solzhenitsyn was deprived of Soviet citizenship in 1974 and was then deported. He has lived in the United States since 1976. (The New Book of Knowledge; Groiler Incorporated; 1990)

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