Background
Andrew Krivak was born on August 28, 1963, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the grandson of Slovak immigrants.
2012
Andrew Krivak with the Chautauqua Prize.
2017
Andrew Krivak speaks with students at St. John's College.
2017
Andrew Krivak at the launch of the book The Signal Flame.
60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD 21401, United States
St. John's College where Andrew Krivak studied.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University where Andrew Krivak received a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Rutgers University where Andrew Krivak received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one man...)
This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one man's search for his religious calling-a search that led him to the Dominican Republic and Central Europe, to Moscow and the South Bronx, and finally into married life with a woman whose search for God coincided with his own. In 1990 Andrew Krivak-poet, yacht rigger, ocean lifeguard, student of the classics-entered the Society of Jesus.
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2008
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National Book Award Finalist Chautauqua Prize Winner Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner “Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation.
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2011
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The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivák – “an extraordinarily elegant writer, with a deep awareness of the natural world” (The New York Times Book Review) – tells the heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef. They were three generations under one roof; a war-haunted family in a war-torn century.
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2017
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LibraryReads Pick! BuzzFeed “Most Anticipated Books of the Year” selection Buzz Books by Publishers Lunch selection From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb.
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2020
Andrew Krivak was born on August 28, 1963, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the grandson of Slovak immigrants.
Andrew Krivak attended St John's College and also studied at Columbia University where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree. He also studied at Rutgers University and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2003.
Andrew Krivak spent eight years preparing to become a Jesuit priest. However, he abandoned this idea and later wrote his first full-length book about that called A Long Retreat. Later he wrote such books as The Sojourn, published in 2011, and The Signal Flame, published in 2017. His latest book The Bear was published in 2020. Krivak is the editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912. He also has taught at Harvard University, Boston College and the College of the Holy Cross.
(LibraryReads Pick! BuzzFeed “Most Anticipated Books of th...)
2020(The stunning second novel from National Book Award finali...)
2017(This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one man...)
2008(National Book Award Finalist Chautauqua Prize Winner Dayt...)
2011
Quotations:
"If you have a really good novel, a really good story to tell, it will get out there."
"The rejection is part of your formation process as a writer."
Quotes from others about the person
Thomas Moore: "With The Signal Flame Andrew Krivák shows us what masterful fiction can do. Inch by inch he reveals the hidden life of a multi-generational family, its impossible tensions and their miraculous resolutions. The beauty of the language invites you to go deep and become involved in the unfolding story, worried about the characters and relieved at their physical and emotional survival. Like a dream the story swallowed me up, and I came out of it more aware of the narrative power of my own life."
Adam Johnson: "In spare and lovely prose, Andrew Krivak folds the deep past and the far future into a remarkable fable about our inheritance as humanity makes a harmonic return to the spirit and animal worlds. This book follows you, like a river under ice."
Andrew Krivak married a woman named Amelia. The marriage produced three children.