Leonid Borisovich Tsypkin (Леонид Борисович Цыпкин) (March 20, 1926 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer and medical doctor, best known for his book Summer in Baden-Baden.
Early life
Tsypkin was born in Minsk, Soviet Union (now the capital of Belarus), to Russian-Jewish parents, "both of whom were medical specialists." "At the start of Stalin's Great Terror, in 1934, Tsypkin's father, Boris, an orthopaedic surgeon, was arrested on trumped-up charges, but was later released after a suicide attempt in which he broke his back."
Bibliography
- Summer in Baden Baden, translated by Roger and Angela Keys, Hamish Hamilton, 285pp.
- "The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works", translated by Jamey Gambrell, New Directions, 346pp.