Masha Gessen is a journalist, author, and scholar. She is the author of the award-winning books "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2009), "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia" (2012), and "A Small Fortune: Diary of a Wealthy Rascal" (2013). Her work has appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Guardian", and the "Los Angeles Times", among others. Born in Moscow, Masha Gessen emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of eight
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She attended Yale University, where she received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Her first book, "Stealing the State: Eight Years in the Secret Russian World of Power Politics", was published by Random House in 1996. Her second book, "A Small Fortune: Diary of a Wealthy Rascal", was published by Penguin Press in 2013.
Her first work of nonfiction, "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia" was published by PublicAffairs in 2012. She also writes fiction under the name Masha Alexander.