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Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975)〔''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.〕〔(Boston University website )〕 is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, and co-editor of ''n+1'', a thrice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City. == Biography == Born Konstantin Gessen into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Moscow Soviet Union,〔Joanna Smith Rakoff. "Talking with Masha Gessen, ''Newsday'', January 2, 2005.〕 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's mother was a literary critic〔(Keith Gessen on Rediscovering Russia, "Big Think" ) May 13, 2008〕 and his father is a computer scientist now specializing in forensics.〔Gabriel Sanders, "Faces Forward: Author Tells Tale of Her Grandmothers' Survival", ''Forward'', December 10, 2004〕 His siblings are Masha Gessen, Daniel Gessen and Philip Gessen. His maternal grandmother, Ruzya Solodovnik, was a Soviet government censor of dispatches filed by foreign reporters such as Harrison Salisbury; his paternal grandmother, Ester Goldberg Gessen, was a translator for a foreign literary magazine.〔 Gessen graduated from Harvard College, where his major was History and Literature. Gessen completed the course work for his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Syracuse University in 2004 but did not receive a degree, having failed to submit "a final original work of fiction". Gessen is married to Emily Gould as of October 2014〔(Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing ) The Guardian. 14 December 2014.〕 and was previously married.〔〔(''Downtown Express'' magazine story on Gessen )〕 As of 2008, he resides in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Gessen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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