Maxim Gorky: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov • Maksim Gorki • Maksim Gorky
Born	March 28, 1868 • Nizhny Novgorod • Russia
Died	June 18, 1936 (aged 68) • near Moscow • Russia
Notable Works	“Chelkash” • “Foma Gordeyev” • “In the World” • “Mother” • “My Childhood” • “My Universities” • “The Lower Depths” • “Twenty-six Men and a Girl” • “Zhizn Klima Samgina”

Photos

See All Images →

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

Nikolay Gogol

Nikolay Gogol

Ukrainian-born writer

default image

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author

Bulgakov, c. 1932

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian author

Olesha, Yury Karlovich

Yury Karlovich Olesha

Russian author

Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich

Leonid Andreyev

Russian author

default image

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov

Russian author

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

default image

Frank Sargeson

New Zealand writer

default image

Witi Ihimaera

New Zealand author

Behan

Brendan Behan

Irish author

default image

Fay Weldon

British author

Ivan Klíma, 2009

Ivan Klíma

Czech author

default image

Chingiz Aytmatov

Kyrgyz author, journalist, and diplomat

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

default image

Timothy Findley

Canadian author

William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

American author

default image

Leonard Michaels

American author