11 Facts About Keith Gessen

Keith A Gessen was born on January 9,1975 and is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.

Keith Gessen is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine n+1 and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Keith Gessen's siblings are Masha Gessen, Daniel Gessen and Philip Gessen.

Keith Gessen's 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.

Keith Gessen has written about Russia for The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books.

In 2010, Keith Gessen edited and introduced Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, a book about the financial crisis.

On November 17,2011, Keith Gessen was arrested by the New York City police while covering and participating in an Occupy protest at the New York Stock Exchange.

Keith Gessen wrote about his experience for The New Yorker.

In 2015, Keith Gessen co-edited City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, which was named a "Best Summer Read of 2015" by Publishers Weekly.

Keith Gessen wrote a non-fiction memoir about raising his son Raffi, titled Raising Raffi: The First Five Years, which was published in 2022.

Keith Gessen is married to the writer Emily Gould and was previously married when he arrived in New York City at age 22.