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Who was the author?

HW: research author Alexander solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918, in Russia one year after the Communist revolution of 1917. His father was killed in an accident before Alexander’s birth, and this fatherless upbringing may help explain the absence of family figures in //One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich//. He went to the best university in Moscow and enrolled in mathematics. After university he had to go to war for World War II, but he was arrested for sending a letter that criticized Stalin. And so he had to go to prisons and labor camps for 8 years. That is how most of the books settings comes from. In 1970, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He did not travel to Sweden to accept the prize, however, because he was afraid he would not be allowed back into the Soviet Union. He later claimed the prize after his emigration from the country. 