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Rowe, William W.Leo Tolstoy. Twayne, 1986. General critical overview of Tolstoy.
Shirer, William L.The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy. Simon & Schuster, 1994. Explores the Tolstoys' troubled relationship with a focus on the final years of Leo Tolstoy's life.
Tolstoy, Alexandra.Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood.Tolstoy: A Life of My Father. Harper, Octagon, 1953. 1973. Intimate portrait by his 12th child, the closest companion of his later years.