Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia, on December 11, 1918, is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the world. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974.
Author's Website: https://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html