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Masha Gessen Named Carnegie Fellow

Organization honors author of ‘The Brothers,’ a book about Boston Marathon bombers

by
Jonathan Zalman
April 24, 2015
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On Wednesday the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced it will award up to $200,000 to 32 scholars in the organization’s inaugural class of fellows in the social sciences and humanities. Among them is Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, who recently released ‘The Brothers,’ a book about Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Gessen, “a lesbian mother who is abandoning her home in Russia because of the anti-gay laws,” her bio reads, is working on a book about Birobidzhan, a Jewish autonomous region 50 miles short of the Chinese border, for Nextbook Press’ Jewish Encounter Series.

Jonathan Zalman is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn.