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Keith Gessen      

Russian-Born American Author & Political Writer; Editor-In-Chief at n+1 Magazine

Keith Gessen is Russian-born American editor-in-chief of n+1, a twice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City. He is an author and political writer.

Gessen graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2004. Gessen, who was born in Russia, has written about Russia for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Gessen has also written about books for magazines including Dissent, Slate, and New York, where he was the regular book critic.

His first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published in April 2008.

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