Venyavkin, Gessen, Gilev, Kalinin | OCT F24
Masha Gessen
Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College
Masha Gessen is the author of twelve books, including most recently Surviving Autocracy, the National Book Award–winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Gessen lived in Russia from 1991 until 2013. An Opinion columnist for the New York Times and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.