Anatoli Rybakov was born on January 14, 1911 in Chernigov, Russian Empire [now Chernihiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Ekaterina Voronina (1957), Kortik (1954) and Minuta molchaniya (1971). He was married to Tatiana Vinokourov Markovna-Rybakova, Anastasia Alekseevna Tysyachnikova and Natalia Davydova. He died on December 23, 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.