Pasternak,
Boris (Leonidovich) 1890-1960; Russ. poet & novelist
See Pasternak in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(păsˈtər-năkˌ, pə-styĭr-näkˈ), Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960.
Russian writer whose Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel of disillusionment with the Russian Revolution, was banned by Soviet authorities. He was forced to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature.