About
Russian author whose deeply psychological and philosophical novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Another work, Notes from the Underground, established him as one of the founders of existentialism.
Before Fame
He was sentenced to hard labor in Siberia for being a part of a leftist intellectual circle. His early literary works include Poor Folk (1846) and Novel in Nine Letters (1847).
Trivia
His son, Alyosha, died young, inspiring a saintly character by the same name in his final and most famous novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He wrote more than 15 novels and novellas.
Family Life
His first wife, Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva, passed away in 1864. Dostoevsky then married his stenographer, Anna Snitkina, and soon after she helped him write The Gambler. He and Snitkina went on to have four children: Sofiya, born in 1868, died as an infant, Lyubov, born in 1869, Fyodor, born in 1871, and Alexei, born in 1875, died at age 3.
Associated With
Experimental American writer, Henry Miller, had a deep admiration for Dostoevsky and found literary inspiration in his works.
