![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After immigrating to the United States from Russia as a teenager in 1981, Gessen returned to their country of birth in 1991, working as a journalist and editor while also writing books such as the 2012 release The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace in 2004. A staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Gessen (who uses the gender neutral pronouns they/them) is also joining the faculty of Bard College as Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Division of Languages and Literature this fall. Masha Gessen understands the genuine terror created by totalitarian regimes. ![]()
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