Michael Henry Heim is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous translations include Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought- Selected Letters and Commentary(with Simon Karlinsky); The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera; and My Century, by G nter Grass. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Chekhov, speaking simply and never otherwise than as an artist and a humane man, shows us in fullness and plenitude the mystery of our lives. -Eudora Welty