Alexander Livergant is a literary scholar, critic, editor-in-chief of the journal Foreign Literature, translator (Jane Austen, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, Jonathan Swift, Evelyn Waugh, etc.), professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Author of biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller and Graham Greene. The new book “Virginia Woolf: “Moments of Being”” is not just a biography of the greatest English writer, but a “collective portrait” of the most notable figures of English literature 20 -40s, given in the context of the turbulent literary and social phenomena of the first half of the twentieth century.