WRITER

Masha Gessen

1967 - Today

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Masha Gessen (Russian: Мари́я "Маша" Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian and American journalist, author, and translator. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masha Gessen has received more than 2,108,785 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Masha Gessen is the 3,812th most popular writer (up from 6,052nd in 2019), the 1,388th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,367th in 2019) and the 176th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Masha Gessen ranks 3,812 out of 7,302. Before her are Francis Scott Key, Gennadius of Massilia, Alexander Volkov, Jane Wilde, Ramiro de Maeztu, and Henry Adams. After her are Taslima Nasrin, Richard Hammond, Carmen Martín Gaite, Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah, Francis Beaumont, and Siamanto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Masha Gessen ranks 134. Before her are Thorsten Fink, Charb, Peter Thiel, Mira Sorvino, Basile Boli, and Henry Ian Cusick. After her are Daron Acemoglu, Masatada Ishii, Michael Giacchino, Zinho, Madhuri Dixit, and Tom Hollander.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Masha Gessen ranks 1,388 out of 3,761. Before her are Anatoli Firsov (1941), Victor Skumin (1948), Vladimir Petrov (1947), Teffi (1872), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), and Alexander Protopopov (1866). After her are Marfa Boretskaya (1450), Filipp Oktyabrsky (1899), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Aleksandr Baryatinsky (1815), Sascha Schneider (1870), and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Masha Gessen ranks 176. Before her are Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Yuli Daniel (1925), Johannes Bobrowski (1917), and Teffi (1872). After her are Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Konstantin Aksakov (1817), Mikhail Shishkin (1961), Veniamin Kaverin (1902), Sophia Parnok (1885), and Nikolay Novikov (1744).

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