Andrew Krivak is a graduate of St. John's College, Annapolis and the Writing Program at Columbia University, and holds a PhD in Modern Literature from Rutgers University. He is the author ofA Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life,a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor ofThe Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912.The grandson of Slovak immigrants, he grew up in Pennsylvania, has lived in London, and has taught at Harvard, Boston College, and the College of the Holy Cross.