Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen at the 6 Moscow Internacional Book Festival, 2011

Masha Gessen (born 13 January 1967) is an American journalist and author.

Born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Russia, in 1981 she moved with her family to the United States, returning in 1991 to Moscow where she lives now.^[1] Her brother is Keith Gessen.

She writes in both Russian and English, and has contributed to The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta and Slate. Gessen is the Russian correspondent for US News & World Report.

Books

• Masha Gessen (1993). The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men in the Russian Republic. International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Comm. pp. 60. ISBN 9781884955136. 
• Masha Gessen, ed (1995). Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women. Cleis Press. pp. 269. ISBN 9781573440066. 
• Masha Gessen (1997). Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia after Communism. Verso. pp. 211. ISBN 9781859841471. 
• Masha Gessen (2004). Two Babushkas: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. pp. 320. ISBN 9780747564096. 
• Masha Gessen (2008). Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 336. ISBN 9780151013623.  (a New York Times Notable Book of the year)
• Masha Gessen (2009). Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 256. ISBN 978-0151014064.  (about Grigori Perelman)

References

1. ^ Joanna Smith Rakoff. Talking with Masha Gessen. Newsday, 2 January 2005

• [1] at Bloomsbury Books author pages
• Review of Blood Matters, The Independent

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