Andrew Krivak

Andrew Krivak was born in 1963 in the American city of Wilkes-Barre. He graduated from Saint John’s College in Annapolis, then studied at Columbia University and Rutgers University, where he received a doctorate in modern literature. The grandson of Slovak immigrants, he grew up in Pennsylvania, lived in London, and taught at Harvard, Boston College, and the College of the Holy Cross. In 2008, Krivak wrote a memoir посвященный his eight-year stay in the Society of Jesus. In 2009, he published a study of the correspondence between one of the most innovative and influential American modernist poets and his brother, Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912, which was later honored with the Louis L. Martz Prize. The writer’s debut novel, The Sojourn, was a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Its follow-up, The Signal Flame, became a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, an annual American literary award presented by the institute of the same name. Together with his wife and three children, Krivak alternately lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and the town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired the writer in creating the landscape in The Bear.