Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer
Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Executed on orders by Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge.
His son with girlfriend Tamara Kashirina was adopted by Vsevolod Ivanov when Ivanov married Tamara.
Lived with Antonina Pirojkova from 1934 until his arrest in 1939. It was not until the 1990s that she learned Babel had died in 1940.
