Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya - Russian prose writer, playwright. Born May 26, 1938 in Moscow in the family of an employee. She lived a difficult military half-starved childhood, wandered around relatives, lived in an orphanage near Ufa. After the war she returned to Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University. She worked as a correspondent for Moscow newspapers, an employee of publishing houses, and since 1972 - an editor at the Central Television Studio. Petrushevskaya early began to compose poetry, write scripts for student evenings, without seriously thinking about writing.