Marietta Chudakova talks about books, which by all means should read exactly before the age of 16 - in any case, not later! Because of the book and shelf of the Golden gathered for you Chudakova Marietta, so cleverly written that if you are late and start reading them adults - you will never get the pleasure that they contain just for you - and escapes from them as your growing up. But! Anyone who has read, say, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer up to 16-year-old - can then re-read them many times and to a great age. Each time it will get pounds of fun! Marietta Chudakova was born January 2, 1937 in Moscow. Russian literary critic, historian, Ph.D., writer, memoirist, social activist. Chudakova graduated from the Moscow school number 367, then in 1959 - the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. Started to be published in 1958. In the years 1959-1961 she taught Russian language and literature at the school. In 1964, after graduate school, she defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of philological sciences. From 1965-1984 she worked in the Manuscript Division of the State Library of the USSR. In 1980 he defended thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philology. Since 1985, began teaching at the Literary Institute, where she worked at the department of modern Russian literature. Since 1988, as a Visiting Professor taught at several American and European universities. Since 1991 - Member of the European Academy. Author of over 700 scientific papers and articles on the history of literature of the XX century, the history of philology and literary criticism. The main area of research interests Chudakova - history of Russian literature of the Soviet period (especially the work of Mikhail Bulgakov, E. Zamyatin, M.Zoshchenko, Kozyrev). Since the late 1980s, along with the historical and literary work, a lot of writing about sharp political and social issues of Russian reality.