David Gurevich
David Gurevich is an American writer of Russian origin.
Early life
David Gurevich was born as Vyacheslav Gurevich in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1951. His father was an Air Force pilot and his mother a doctor. He was one of a few Jewish students on the Interpreter department of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1976, he immigrated to the US, working as a writer, book and film critic, and essayist.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.Gurevich was the producer of the TV documentary Empty Rooms about the 2001 Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv.