David Gurevich is an American writer of Russian origin.
Early life
David Gurevich was born as Vyacheslav Gurevich in
Kharkov
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. , Ukraine, in 1951. His father was an Air Force pilot and his mother a doctor. He was one of a few
Jewish
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students on the Interpreter department of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow Linguistic University). In 1976, he immigrated to the US, working as a writer, book and film critic, and essayist.
Career
In 1987, his first novel, ''Travels with Dubinsky and Clive'', was published by
Viking Press
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. The memoir ''From Lenin to Lennon'', and another novel, ''Vodka for Breakfast'', followed.
Gurevich was the producer of the TV documentary ''Empty Rooms'' (directed by Dutch director
Willy Lindwer
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Childhood and education
W ...
) about the 2001
Dolphinarium massacre
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in
Tel Aviv
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.
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References
*https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-gurevich/from-lenin-to-lennon/
*https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780151498253
*https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/books/born-in-the-ussr.html
Living people
1951 births
American male journalists
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