Author

Books by Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest in both forms. A practicing physician for most of his adult life, he wrote hundreds of short stories alongside four major plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. His work is defined by understatement, sympathy for his characters, and a refusal of neat moral resolution. He died of tuberculosis at forty-four, weeks after the premiere of The Cherry Orchard.