David Gurevich is a playwright born 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 (now Moscow Linguistic University). In 1976 he immigrated to the United States, where he had a number of occupations until he found his real vocation as a writer, book, and film critic, essayist. In 1987, his first novel, Travels with Dubinsky and Clive, was published by Viking. The memoir From Lenin to Lennon (Harcourt Brace, 1991) and another novel, Vodka for Breakfast (ENC Press, 2003) followed.
His articles and book reviews have appeared in various publications, both in the United States and abroad. He wrote on the Russian mafia for Details (magazine), on Harold Robbins’ literary heritage for The New York Times Book Review, and on Yevgeny Zamyatin for The New Criterion. Other publications include The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian (London), The Forward, The Boston Globe, The American Spectator, Newsday, and others. He also reviews film for Images Journal, an online publication.