Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Irena Grudzińska-Gross (born 15 December 1946) is a Polish historian. After fleeing from her native Poland as a university student following the 1968 Polish political crisis, she obtained her PhD at Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a resident scholar at Remarque Institute and Princeton University. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Intellectual and Cultural History, she has written historical books on modern Europe (particularly intellectual history and literature), including ''The Scar of Revolution'' (1991), ''Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets'' (2009), and ''Golden Harvest'' (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with her ex-husband Jan T. Gross. Provided by Wikipedia