Keith Gessen Books in Order

Keith Gessen is a highly acclaimed author, editor, and translator, born in Moscow in 1975. He emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of six and went on to become a co-founder of the influential literary magazine n+1. Gessen's notable works include the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. He has also written extensively on Russia for prominent publications such as the London Review of Books, n+1, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. Notably, he has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich and There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. As an editor, Gessen has overseen several n+1 book publications, including What We Should Have Known, Diary of a Very Bad Year, and City by City. He resides in New York with his wife, author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy.