Background
Krook was born in Riga, Latvia and moved to South Africa at the age of eight.
Krook was born in Riga, Latvia and moved to South Africa at the age of eight.
In 1946 she was awarded a scholarship to Newnham College, at the University of Cambridge, where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy and spent 14 years as a research fellow and assistant lecturer.
She earned a degree in English literature at the University of Cape Town. Among her students there was the poet Sylvia Plath, who wrote that Krook was her ideal of a successful career woman and wonderful human being. While at Newnham, Krook published her first major critical work, Three Traditions of Moral Thought.
In 1960, she immigrated to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of English Literature.
She translated many of his poems into English. Krook died on November 13, 1989.
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Krook married the poet Zerubavel Gilad in 1968 and became a member of Kibbutz Ein Harod. In 1974, she became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.