She is the mother of Russian writer and journalist Yulia Latynina.

[1] Alla Nikolayevna Latynina was born on 4 July 1940 in Moscow into the family of an office worker.

She defended her PhD on the subject of "Critique of the Existential Interpretation of Dostoyevsky".

In 1992–93, she worked at Obschaya Gazeta in charge of the culture section.

She was on the editorial board of the Moscow Vestnik magazine (1989); on the board of the book series "Anons" at Moskovsky Rabochy Publishers (1989–90), and the Strelets magazine.