Evsey Tseytlin (born in Omsk, 1948) is an essayist, prose writer, literary critic, cultural critic, and editor. He is the author of essays, literary criticism, monographs, stories, and novels about artists and writers. His books, in Russian, include “Long Conversations While Waiting for a Happy Death” (1996; 2001, 2009; “Rowohlt” in German, 2000; and in Lithuanian, in 1997), “Writer in the Provinces” (Moscow, “Soviet Writer,” 1990), “Voice and Echo” (1989), “Milestones of Memory” (with Lev Anninsky, 1987), “On the Way to Man” (1986), “On What Remains” (1985), “Long Echo” (1985; 1989, in Lithuanian), “The Light Does Not Go Out” (1984), “To Live and Believe…” (1983), “Vsevolod Ivanov” (1983), “How Many Roads the Armored Train No. 14-69” (1982), “So What’s Tomorrow…?” (1982), “Always and Today…” (1980), and “Conversations on the Road” (1977). Since 1968, his work has been published in a wde spectrum of literary and art magazines. He compiled four collections of prose by Russian and foreign writers. He was editor-in-chief of the almanac “Jewish Museum” (Vilnius). Since 1996, he has lived in the US, editing “Shalom,” a monhtly magazine published in Chicago.