Background
Inna Ivanovna Rostovtseva was born on December 23, 1938 in Yefremov, Tula Region, Russian Federation.
Inna Ivanovna Rostovtseva was born on December 23, 1938 in Yefremov, Tula Region, Russian Federation.
In 1960 Inna Ivanovna Rostovtseva graduated from the philological faculty of Voronezh State University.
Since childhood, Inna Ivanovna Rostovtseva lived in Voronezh. She worked at the Central Black Earth Publishing House (1960-1962). The first publications appeared in the magazine Rise (since 1959). Since 1962 Inna Ivanovna lived in Moscow. She was a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University (1965-1966). She was an employee of the magazines "Children's Literature" (1967-1972), "Soviet Literature (in a foreign language)" (1972-91), "Lepta" (1991, 1994), "Russian Province" (since 1995) and others.
Inna Ivanovna Rostovtseva is the author of over 300 articles on Russian and Soviet writers (including about A.P. Platonov, A.T. Prasolov, Y.D. Goncharov, V.A. Korablebin, V.M. Peskov), on the problems of classical and contemporary poetry. She’d also written many books, including "The Secret in Man" (Voronezh, 1968), "The World of Zabolotsky" (Moscow, 1999), "Poems of a Private Person" (Moscow, 1999). She is the compiler of a number of collections of A.T. Prasolova, including the book "I Met Your Night: A Novel in Letters" (Moscow, 2003).