This Russian novelist dropped out of college after 3 years & then wrote "Anna Karenina"
[DOC] [TLE] The Translation Wars - The New Yorker [PAR] Nov 7, 2005 ... She translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for commercial ... at Newnham 
College, Cambridge, and after graduation she married a publisher .... five to six 
yearsmore than twice as long as it took Dostoyevsky to write the novel.