Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser is the author of A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream , Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir , and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa . He is also the coeditor of the pathbreaking anthology Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa . His journalism and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Wall Street Journal , and other publications. The recipient of a 2012 Open...See more

Mark Gevisser is the author of A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream , Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir , and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa . He is also the coeditor of the pathbreaking anthology Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa . His journalism and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Wall Street Journal , and other publications. The recipient of a 2012 Open Society Fellowship, he lives in Cape Town, South Africa. See less