Keith Gessen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Keith Gessen
Occupation	Publisher
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1975(1975-01-09)
Age	49
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	United States
Birth City	Moscow
Horoscope	Aquarius

Keith Gessen Biography

Keith Gessen is one of the most popular and richest Publisher who was born on January 9, 1975 in Moscow, Moscow, United States. Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, literary translator, and co-editor of n+1, a thrice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City. He is also an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2008 he was named a “5 under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation.

Gessen is married to the writer Emily Gould and was previously married when he arrived in New York City at age 22. As of 2008, he resided in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

In 2010, Gessen edited and introduced Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, a book about the financial crisis. In 2011, he became involved in the Occupy Movement in New York City. He co-edited the OCCUPY! Gazette, a newspaper reporting on Occupy Wall Street and sponsored by n+1. On November 17, 2011, Gessen was arrested by the New York City police while covering and participating in an Occupy protest at the New York Stock Exchange. He wrote about his experience for The New Yorker.

In 2015, Gessen co-edited City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, which was named a “Best Summer Read of 2015” by Publishers Weekly.

Gessen has written about Russia for The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books. In 2004–2005, he was the regular book critic for New York magazine. In 2005, Dalkey Archive Press published Gessen’s translation of Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl (Russian: Tchernobylskaia Molitva), an oral history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In 2009, Penguin published his translation (with Anna Summers) of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales.

Keith Gessen Net Worth

Keith Gessen is one of the richest Publisher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Keith Gessen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow, Soviet Union, he and his parents and sister moved to the United States in 1981. They settled in the Boston area, living in Brighton, Brookline and Newton, Massachusetts.

Gessen graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in history and literature in 1998. He completed the course-work for his M.F.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University in 2004 but did not initially receive a degree, having failed to submit “a final original work of fiction.” According to his Columbia University faculty biography, he ultimately received the degree.

Gessen’s first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published in April 2008 and received mixed reviews. Joyce Carol Oates wrote that “in this debut novel there is much that is charming and beguiling, and much promise”. The novelist Jonathan Franzen has said of Gessen, “It’s so delicious the way he writes. I like it a lot.” New York Magazine, on the other hand, called the novel “self-satisfied” and “boringly solipsistic”.

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Who is Keith Gessen Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Keith Ranked on the list of most popular Publisher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Keith Gessen celebrates birthday on January 9 of every year.

Is Keith Gessen related to Masha Gessen?

Gessen’s mother was a literary critic and his father is a computer scientist now specializing in forensics. His siblings are Masha Gessen, Daniel Gessen and Philip Gessen.

Who is Masha Gessen married to?

Darya Oreshkina

Where did Masha Gessen go to college?

Education

How old is Putin?

69 years (October 7, 1952)

Where is Masha?

Masha’s house Masha lives in a small yellow house in a railway station somewhere in central Russia.