# Leo Tolstoy

> He wrote two novels—War and Peace and Anna Karenina—that sit on every list of the greatest books ever written, then spent the second half of his life rejecting almost everything that made him famous, becoming a Christian anarchist whose ideas on nonviolent resistance shaped Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

*Russian author (1828–1910)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1828-08-28
- **Died:** 1910-11-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born to Russian aristocracy in 1828, Tolstoy made his name in his twenties with a semi-autobiographical trilogy and sketches drawn from the Crimean War. War and Peace arrived in 1869, Anna Karenina in 1878—both now considered pinnacles of realist fiction. Then, in the 1870s, came a moral crisis and what he called a spiritual awakening: he turned to a literal reading of the Sermon on the Mount, became a pacifist, and poured his new convictions into works like The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which reached figures like Gandhi and King. He kept writing—novellas like The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a late novel called Resurrection built on his "youthful sins" and his embrace of Henry George's economic philosophy—but the man who'd been nominated for the Nobel in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 never won, a controversy that hasn't faded. He died in 1910, leaving an oeuvre Virginia Woolf said belonged to "the greatest of all novelists."

## Fame
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## Platforms
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## Topics
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