Mikhail Bulgakov (18911940) was a Russian novelist and playwright best known for the novel The Master and Margarita.
Andrew Bromfield has translated works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, and Victor Pelevin.
Keith Gessen was born in Russia and is a novelist, critic, translator, and cofounder of the literary magazine n + 1. He lives in New York.