Dobychin, Leonid

<div>Leonid Dobychin was born in Dvinsk (today's Daugavpils), Latvia, in 1894. In 1936, shortly after the publication of his novel <i>The Town of N, </i> Dobychin was attacked by the Leningrad Writers' Union. He disappeared the next day and was never seen again. <br><br>Richard C. Borden is the author of <i>The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev's Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism</i> (NUP 1999 ) and co-translator of Dobychin's <i>The Town of N</i> (1998), both published by Northwestern University Press. He lives in the United...