Agate Nesaule is an American writer, emeritus professor of English and American Modern Literature at the University of Wisconsin.
Background
Agate Nesaule was born on January 23, 1938 in Riga, Latvia, into the family of Peteris and Valda (Kness-Knezinskis) Nesaule. At the end of World War II, she and her parents and sisters traveled to Germany, where they fell into the Soviet occupation and experienced violence against civilians. An inveterate family managed to reach the Western Allies' occupation zone, and then, in 1950, traveled to the United States, where she lived in poor conditions and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder acquired from war and refugee camps. She became a naturalized US citizen in 1956.
Education
In 1961 Agata received Bachelor of Arts at Indiana University, and then she got Master of Arts there in 1963. After that she earned Doctor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972.
Agate Nesaule was a professor of English and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin from 1963 to 1996. At the age of 47, she began writing a book of memories of war horrors and the inclusion of women in their families in the American society, following a psychologist's recommendation. As a result, the autobiographical novel "A Woman in Amber. Healing the Trauma of War and Exile" came out in 1995. In 2009 came out her second book "In Love with Jerzy Kosinski."