Dr Zhivago author’s great-niece denies she is a ‘mere copyist’

The great niece of Boris Pasternak who is suing US author Lara Prescott for £2m, claiming she stole substantial parts of her book about Dr Zhivago, denied she is a ‘mere copyist’ herself. Anna Pasternak claims her book, Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago, was the unauthorised source for Prescott’s fiction bestseller The Secrets We Kept. The niece’s book is a biography of Boris Pasternak and his mistress Olga Ivinskaya, who she claims is the…