Russian-American journalist whose new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.
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Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist based in Moscow. Her work has been published in The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate and Vanity Fair, and she has written books on genetics and mathematics. Her new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Granta, ISBN: 978-1-84708-423-1), and she will be a guest at two sessions (17 and 19 May) at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.