Evsey Tseytlin (born in Omsk, 1948) is an essayist, prose writer, literary critic, cultural critic, and editor. He is the author of essays, literary-critical articles, monographs, stories and novels about people of art. The main works of Evsei Tseytlin are collected in his books: “Long Conversations Waiting for a Happy Death” (1996; 2001, 2009; in German – “Rowohlt”, 2000; in Lithuanian – 1997), “Writer in the Province” (Moscow, “Soviet Writer” (1990), “Voice and Echo” (1989), “Milestones of Memory” (1987; with Lev Anninsky), “On the Way to Man” (1986), “On What Remains” (1985), “Long Echo” (1985; in Lithuanian – 1989), “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 Tomorrow…?” (1982), “Always and Today…” (1980), “Conversations on the Road” (1977). Since 1968 he has published in many 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 USA, editing the Chicago monthly “Shalom”.