Olga Andreyev Carlisle

Olga Andreyev Carlisle is the granddaughter of the writer Leonid Andreyev and of Victor Chernov, the revolutionary leader who inspired the central figure of her book "The Idealists, "co-written with her husband Henry Carlisle. A painter, she is also the editor of "Poets on Street Corners" and the author of "Voices in the Snow," "Island of Time," "Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle," and "Under a New Sky." With her husband Henry she is co-translator of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" and of "Visions,"...See more

Olga Andreyev Carlisle is the granddaughter of the writer Leonid Andreyev and of Victor Chernov, the revolutionary leader who inspired the central figure of her book "The Idealists, "co-written with her husband Henry Carlisle. A painter, she is also the editor of "Poets on Street Corners" and the author of "Voices in the Snow," "Island of Time," "Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle," and "Under a New Sky." With her husband Henry she is co-translator of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" and of "Visions," a collection of Andreyev's stories. Born in Paris, she now lives in San Francisco. See less