Samuil Aronovich Lurie was a Russian writer and literary historian.
Background
Samuil Aronovich Lurie was born in Sverdlovsk to a family of philologists from Saint St. Petersburg evacuated during World World War World War II His father, Aron Naumovich Lurie (1913-2003), was a bibliographer, literary historian, Doctor of Philological Science and World World War II veteran.
Education
Lurie graduated from Leningrad State University and worked briefly as a village school teacher (1964-1964), then for the National Pushkin Museum in Saint St. Petersburg (1965-1966).
Career
His first publications were in Zvezda magazine (1964). He wrote a coloumn in Zvezda magazine named "Lessons of Belles-Letres" (Russian: Уроки Изящной Словесности). In 1966 he became an editor of the magazine Neva.
From 1988-2002 he was editor-in-chief of the prose section.
From 2002-2012 he worked as an editor of Polden XXI Century, a science fantasy almanac. He authored more than a thousand journal articles
He died in Palo Alto, California, United States of America on 7 August 2015 at the age of 73.
Membership
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.