Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Literary Giant Solzhenitsyn Dead at 89

By Dave Gram
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who shook the foundations of Soviet rule with his monumental work “The Gulag Archipelago,” died late Sunday in his Moscow region home, his son said. He was 89 years old.

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