Ian Frazier Quotes
Russians don't complain, usually.
Citations
Frazier, Ian. Travels in Siberia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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Ian Frazier (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer and humorist. He wrote the 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, 2010's non-fiction travelogue Travels in Siberia, and works as a writer and humorist for The New Yorker.