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Masha gessen is an author with nine videos in the cspan video library. The recipient of numerous awards, including a guggenheim fellowship and a carnegie fellowship, gessen teaches at amherst college and lives in new york city. Krauss, auster, gessen books among times best of 2017 the. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. In october 2017, they published their 10th book the future is history. Gessen was on the board of directors of the moscowbased lgbt rights organization triangle between 1993 and 1998 in an extensive october 2008 profile of vladimir putin for vanity fair, gessen reported that the young putin had been an aspiring thug and that the backward evolution of russia began within days of his inauguration in 2000. Look out for masha gessens new book, the future is history, coming october 2017 a gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism that gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters christian science monitor. Masha gessen on putins russia, totalitarianism, and her new. Author and journalist masha gessen delivers the arthur miller lecture at the 2017 pen world voices festival. Jan 21, 2020 new york ap masha gessen, the russianborn author and journalist, has a new book out in june. Masha gessen and clarissa ward great conversations. Reclaimed russia, winner of the national book award in 2017.
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