Gary Shteyngart
American journalist and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of five novels and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical. Early life Born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart in the Soviet Union, he spent the first seven years of his childhood living in a square dominated by a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin in what is now St. Petersburg—which he alternately calls "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg". He comes from a Jewish family, with an ethnically Russian maternal grandparent, and describes his family as typically Soviet. His father worked as an engineer in a LOMO camera factory; his mother was a pianist. When he was five, he wrote a 100-page comic novel.
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