Olga Grushin
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Olga Grushin (born 1971) is a Russian-American novelist.
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Born in Moscow to the family of Boris Grushin, a prominent Soviet sociologist,[1] Olga Grushin spent most of her childhood in Prague,Czechoslovakia.[2] She was educated at Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Moscow State University before receiving a scholarship toEmory University in 1989. She graduated summa cum laude from Emory in 1993. She became a naturalized US citizen in 2002, but retains Russian citizenship.[2] Grushin has worked as an interpreter for Jimmy Carter, as a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar, a translator at the World Bank, a research analyst at a Washington, DC law firm, and, most recently, an editor at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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