Thomas P. Whitney
Thomas Porter Whitney (January 26, 1917 in
Biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Whitney graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. degree and went on graduate from Columbia University in 1940 with a Master's degree in Russian history.[1] A translator of a number of works from Russian to English, Whitney is best known for translating the work of Nobel Prize winning author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Whitney also translated Petro Grigorenko's Memoirs[2] and Yuri Orlov's Dangerous Thoughts.[3]
He wrote a memoir titled Russia in My Life.[4] First published in 1962 in New York City, it recounted the nine years he spent living in the Soviet Union at the close of the Joseph Stalin regime.[1]
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Whitney donated important collections of
A fan of Thoroughbred racing, as a hobby Whitney owned and raced several horses, most notably winning the Grade 1 Diana Handicap in 1983.
References
- ^ a b Fox, Margalit (12 December 2007). "Thomas P. Whitney, Solzhenitsyn translator, dies at 90". The New York Times.
- ISBN 0-393-01570-X.
- ISBN 0688104711.
- OCLC 1355038.
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