The article discusses the structure of the biographical database of Russian writers, created
for the Russian short stories corpus of the first third of the 20th century. For building a formal model
of a literary system, as well as for studying individual author's styles and artistic trends, it seems
appropriate to take into account certain sociological characteristics and biography features of the
writers. The anticipated biographical database will allow to conduct language and style studies
of literary works depending on a number of parameters — writer's social origin, education, type of
activity/profession, author's age at the time of writing a particular work, etc.