<p>A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon.<br><br><br>In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage....