Chekhov's mother was an excellent story teller, which greatly effected Chekhov's development into a writer, it is said that her storytelling gave him his "gift of narrative" and she also taught him how to read and write.

Chekhov was also a doctor and he said his profession had a great influence on his writing.
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"Only a doctor can know what value my knowledge of science has been to me," and "It seems to me that as a doctor I have described the sicknesses of the soul correctly." For instance, Trigorin's analysis in "The Sea-Gull" of the state of mind of an author has well been called "artistic diagnosis."
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Source(s):
http://www.theatrehistory.com/russian/chekhov001.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tsehov.htm
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html


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