Alexander Neverov

Alexander Sergeyevich Neverov (; 24 December 1886 – 24 December 1923) was a Russian and Soviet writer and teacher. Neverov was his pseudonym; his real surname was Skobelev .

Biography Neverov was born on 20 December 1886 in the village of Novikovka, Melekess, Samara Province. His father was a farmer and a former non-commissioned officer of the Life Guard Lancers, who later left the village and worked as a doorman in the city. Neverov spent his childhood, until the age of 16, living in the home of his grandfather, largely because of his father's military service.

He received his earliest education at a local church school. In 1903, he was accepted at a secondary school in Ozerkino. He graduated after three years of study with a diploma that qualified him as an elementary school teacher. In his third year in Ozerkino, he published his first story in The Temperance Messenger, a St Petersburg newspaper.

English translations Tashkent, (novel), Victor Gollancz, London, 1930. Translated from the Russian by Reginald Merton and W.G. Walton City of Bread, (novel), George H. Doran Co, 1927. (Reprinted by Hyperion Press, 1973.) The Music and On the Land, (stories), from The Salt Pit, Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1988. Hunger, (story), from Tellers of Tales, Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1939.