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David Lyalin was born in 1955 in Leningrad. An engineer by training, he worked at a research institute and earned a Ph.D. before emigrating to the United States. Since 1990, he has been living and working in Atlanta.

His bilingual (English–Russian) book Tales of a Grandfather Who Once Upon a Time Was a Grandson Himself / Рассказы дедушки, который сам когда-то был внуком was published in 2025 by Sandermoen Publishing (Switzerland). It is a collection of autobiographical stories about family, memory, and time — engaging both for general readers and for those studying Russian or English.

Lyalin’s Russian-language works have appeared in journals in the United States and Germany, including Chayka (Seagull), Sem’ Iskusstv (Seven Arts), Zametki po

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Question: Are there any characters or events in the book that you yourself only discovered in the process of writing it? It’s remarkable how the horizon of events can expand as you immerse yourself in family stories.

Oh, absolutely. For example, my Canadian relatives told me a completely different version of the parting between Yakov and Leyba on Ellis Island—not the one I had heard from my fa

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“You have to be an optimist. No matter how poorly you’ve written your story, there will always be thousands of readers who will consider it nothing short of a masterpiece.
At the same time, you have to be a skeptic. No matter how well you’ve written your story, there will inevitably be thousands of readers who will sincerely believe it’s complete garbage.
And finally, you have to be a realist. No matter how well—or how poorly—you’ve written your story, there will always be millions of people who remain completely indifferent to it. They simply won’t care whether you wrote it or never even started.”
― Boris Strugatsky

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