Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...nton pav l vich che kh v, 1860 1904, Russian short-story writer, dramatist, and physician, b. Taganrog. The son of a grocer...and Stories (1888), from which "The Steppe" earned him the Pushkin Prize. Chekhovs many hundreds of stories concern human folly...