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Masha Gessen

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Masha Gessen (Russian: Мария Александровна (Маша) Гессен, romanized: Mariya Aleksandrovna (Masha) Gessen) is a Russian and American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively on LGBT rights. Gessen writes primarily in English but also in Russian. In addition to authoring several nonfiction books, Gessen has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. They have been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2017 and an opinion columnist at The New York Times, under the byline M. Gessen, since May 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Masha Gessen is the 6,457th most popular writer (down from 3,811th in 2024), the 2,541st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,388th in 2019) and the 283rd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Masha Gessen ranks 6,457 out of 7,302. Before her are Rick Falkvinge, Walter Lord, Shirley Ann Grau, Mieko Kawakami, Ellen Willis, and Sahir Ludhianvi. After her are Brian Friel, Paul Klebnikov, DBC Pierre, Janet Evanovich, Michael Chabon, and Wilma Mankiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Masha Gessen ranks 452. Before her are Claudinho, Niki Caro, Juan Carlos Unzué, Nobuhiro Takeda, Alberto García Aspe, and Jeff Jarrett. After her are Dale Crover, Mo'Nique, Magnus Gustafsson, Gosha Kutsenko, Dhafer Youssef, and Uche Okafor.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Masha Gessen ranks 2,541 out of 3,761. Before her are Eduard Ivanov (1938), Leyla Aliyeva (1984), Alan Dzagoev (1990), Yelena Slesarenko (1982), Andrei Bukin (1957), and Igor Shalimov (1969). After her are Yevgeny Mironov (1966), Natalie Glebova (1981), Magomedsalam Magomedov (1964), Yekaterina Fesenko (1958), Denis Manturov (1969), and Dmitri Kharine (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Masha Gessen ranks 283. Before her are Māra Zālīte (1952), Alex Yermolinsky (1958), Alexey Dreev (1969), Zakhar Prilepin (1975), Ksenia Sobchak (1981), and Leyla Aliyeva (1984). After her are Yulia Latynina (1966), Dmitry Bykov (1967), Olga Slavnikova (1957), Andrey Malakhov (1972), Rubén Gallego (1968), and Elena Chizhova (1957).

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