David Gurevich

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David Gurevich is an American writer of Russian origin. [1]

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Early life

David Gurevich was born as Vyacheslav Gurevich in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1951.[ citation needed ] His father was an Air Force pilot and his mother a doctor.[ citation needed ] He was one of a few Jewish students on the Interpreter department of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow Linguistic University).[ citation needed ] In 1976, he immigrated to the US, working as a writer, book and film critic, and essayist.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 1987, his first novel, Travels with Dubinsky and Clive, was published by Viking Press. The memoir From Lenin to Lennon, and another novel, Vodka for Breakfast, followed.[ citation needed ]

Gurevich was the producer of the TV documentary Empty Rooms (directed by Dutch director Willy Lindwer) about the 2002 Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Teachout, Terry (2 June 1991). "Born in the U.S.S.R." The New York Times . Retrieved 2011-04-04.