January 9, 1975 -
Russian-born American novelist, journalist, literary translator and professor
Author of "All the Sad Young Literary Men", "Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager" and "State of Terror: A Historian Explains How Stalin Turned Stalinist"
Is the co-founder and co-editor of literary magazine "n+1"
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen