11 Facts About Boris Polevoy

Boris Polevoy is the author of the book The Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresyev.

Boris Polevoy was born in Moscow in 1908, the son of a lawyer from a Russian Orthodox priest family.

Boris Polevoy's parents were Nikolay Petrovich and Lidiya Kampov.

Boris Polevoy was a graduate of the Tver Industrial Technical College.

Boris Polevoy is perhaps best known for his reporting on the atrocities at Auschwitz soon after its liberation, which were the first to have been published in Pravda.

Boris Polevoy continued as a war correspondent for the newspaper until 1945.

Boris Polevoy was chief editor of the literary youth magazine Yunost from 1962 until his death and was a board member of the Union of Soviet Journalists from 1959.

Boris Polevoy served on the Soviet Peace Committee and Bureau World Peace Council.

For years, Polevoy exchanged a series of letters with Howard Fast, an American writer who had been a member of the Communist Party for 15 years, and best known as the author of Spartacus.

Boris Polevoy writes that when he received Fast's news, that night I could not fall asleep.

Boris Polevoy married Yulia Osipovna in 1939; the couple had two sons and a daughter.