Irena Grudzi.ska-Gross fleed her native Poland in 1968, obtained her PhD at the Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a research scholar at Princeton University. 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 Jan T. Gross.