Fyodor Dostoevsky

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists ever, his most acclaimed novels—Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot—have had an immeasurable impact on world literature, Existentialism, and Freudian psychology.