David Gurevich

{{short description|American writer}} {{Multiple issues| {{mfn|date=June 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2009}} {{Missing information|about= Achievements and honours|date=September 2021}} }} [[File:David gurevich 73.png|thumb|david gurevich writer]] '''David Gurevich''' is an American writer of Russian origin.<ref>{{cite news | first = Terry | last = Teachout | title = Born in the U.S.S.R. | date = 2 June 1991 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/books/born-in-the-ussr.html | work = [[The New York Times]] | access-date = 2011-04-04}}</ref> ==Early life== David Gurevich was born as Vyacheslav Gurevich in [[Kharkiv|Kharkov]], Ukraine, in 1951.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} His father was an Air Force pilot and his mother a doctor.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} He was one of a few [[Jews|Jewish]] students on the Interpreter department of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow Linguistic University).{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} In 1976, he immigrated to the US, working as a writer, book and film critic, and essayist.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

==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|date=January 2024}}

Gurevich was the producer of the TV documentary ''Empty Rooms'' (directed by Dutch director [[Willy Lindwer]]) about the 2001 [[Dolphinarium massacre]] in [[Tel Aviv]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | last = Gurewich | first = David | title = Travels with Dubinsky and Clive | publisher = Viking | location = New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-670-81621-3 | url = https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_a9f7 }} * {{cite book | last = Gurevich | first = David | title = From Lenin to Lennon | publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | location = San Diego | year = 1991 | isbn = 0-15-149825-3 | url = https://archive.org/details/fromlenintolenno00gure }} * {{cite book | last = Gurevich | first = David | title = Vodka for Breakfast | publisher = ENC Press | location = New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-9728321-2-2 }} * {{cite book | last = Gurevich | first = David | title = Young Spies in Love: A Novel of Tradecraft | publisher = david gurevich books | location = New York | year = 2016 | isbn = 9780997701517 }}

==References== {{Reflist}} *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

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