Rosemary Sullivan.
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN
the extraordinary and tumultuous life of svetlana alliluyeva (2015)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
The story of a daughter doomed to live with the monstruous reputation of her father, Josef Stalin. She surprised the world by defecting to live in the USA, leaving her two children behind. She died in poverty.
THE AUTHOR
Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian author and poet who is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. Born near Montreal, she took her undergraduate degree at McGill University, her master’s degree at the University of Connecticut and her PhD at the University of Sussex. She is a prolific writer of both poetry and books - including six biographies.
