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Maksim Gorky (1868–1936)
Gorky, Maksim [Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov]. A Russian novelist; born in Nijni Novgorod, March 14, 1868; died in 1936. During his early career he served successively as peddler, scullery-boy, gardener, watchman, and baker’s apprentice. Among his numerous works are: ‘Song of the Falcon,’ ‘Twenty-six and One,’ ‘About the Devil,’ ‘The Reader,’ ‘The Outcasts’ (1902); ‘Three Men’ (1902). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).