Masha Gessen
Staff writer, The New Yorker Author
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.
A staff writer at
The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.
Her latest book “
Surviving Autocracy” highlights the corrosion of the media, the judiciary, and the cultural norms as signs of autocracy.