About the Author

Paolo Mancosu is the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak’s Masterpiece (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2013), Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates: Itineraries in the Publishing History of Doctor Zhivago (Stanford: Hoover Press, 2015), and Zhivago’s Secret Journey: From Typescript to Book (Hoover Press, 2016). He has been a fellow of the Humboldt Stiftung, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Institut d’Études AvancÉes in Paris.