Boris Pasternak
This goo was worth a point in April 2024.
publication date: Friday, April 19, 2024 (part of April 2024)
category: 
Literature
clue: This mid-century Russian novelist (not medical textbook author) was so controversial that the Communists running the country told him that they would ring no bell in his honor.
explanation: Pasternak was a poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 for Doctor Zhivago, which the Community Party forced him to decline after they banned the book in the USSR. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and LaVonne Lemler
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