Keith Gessen
| Keith Gessen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen January 9, 1975 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Editor, writer, academic |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Harvard University Syracuse University |
Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) 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. 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.
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into an Ashkenazi 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'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. 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 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 is married to Emily Gould as of October 2014 and was previously married. As of 2008, he resides in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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