About M. Gessen
M. Gessen (formerly known as Masha Gessen; Russian: Маша Гессен) is a Russian 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, they have 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. Gessen has been an opinion columnist at The New York Times since May 2024 and was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 2017 to 2024. In August 2023, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS) announced that Gessen had won the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. Gessen, Masha (2 June 2017). "Opinion: Trump's Incompetence Won't Save Our Democracy". Gessen was born into a Jewish family in Moscow to Alexander and Yelena Gessen.
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