Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer but he wrote more than just plays and stories. InAlive in the Writing an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers, and his venture into nonfiction through his bookSakhalin Island. By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling...