Vasily GrossmanVasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grssman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Read More Read Less