Elena Gorokhova is an author known for her memoirs about growing up in Russia.
Gorokhova was born in 1955 in Lenningrad. [1] She studied English at Leningrad State University, now Saint Petersburg State University, before leaving the Soviet Union in 1980. [2] She first moved to Texas, and in 1997 she moved to New Jersey. [3]
In the United States, she received her doctorate in language teaching from Rutgers University. [4] She teaches English as a second language at Hudson County Community College. [3]
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