About the book: 1969 / Leonid Borisov is known to the reader for his books - “The Wizard from Gel-Gyu”, “The Generous Knight”, “Those After My Heart” etc. He creates poetic and fascinating images of people of art: Green, Stevenson, Jules Verne, Rachmaninov are his favorite heroes. And it is no coincidence that the theme “a book in my life” turned out to be so close to him. “Parents, mentors, poets” is a sincere, lyrical story about how a book entered the life of a boy from a poor craft family and became a friend and joy forever. About how the boy grew up, met on his way people obsessed with books, passionately in love with a dog, about how they helped him from the Pinkertons and other cheap crafts to rise from step to step to the highest values ​​of real fiction, to understand and love the beautiful works of Russian and foreign prose and poetry. The book became his support in difficult times, awakened the desire to become a writer, a person who makes a book and instills a love for it in his readers. This lyrical confession of a book lover does not seek to give either a picture of the era or a complete autobiography of the writer. This book, like any memoirs, is very personal . But its pulse, its main string is a passionate, reverent love for the book, and this - as confirmed by numerous responses to its first edition - attracts the excited attention of readers to it.