Haber is a scrupulous scholar and she has been researching Teffi's life and work for 40 years. She takes nothing for granted and backs all her assertions with definite evidence ... an exemplary biographer. Robert Chandler, Los Angeles Review of Books
List of PlatesNotes on the TextAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. "An Interesting Bunch": Family Background and Early Years2. Literary Beginnings, 1898-19083. Ascent, 1908-154. Feasts and Plagues, 1910-165. A Farewell to Russia, Past and Future, 1915-196. Migration, 1919-247. Russia Abroad, 1924-318. A Slippery Slope, 1931-69. Tenderness and Angst, 1936-810. Zigzags in Life and Art, 1938-911. War and Its Aftermath, 1939-4612. Struggle and Perseverance, 1946-5113. Last Works, Last Days, 1952Epilogue: Life after TeffiNotesSelect Bibliography and Further Reading in EnglishIndex
Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, USA.