The Incredible Drama Around ‘Doctor Zhivago’ And The Nobel Prize (A Dive Into The New York Times Archives)

“Sixty years ago, the Swedish Academy awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, but less than a week later, under pressure from the Soviet government, Pasternak rejected the award. The story, which had more twists and turns than a Cold War-era spy novel, played out in The New York Times with one front-page story after another.”