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(1943-2018) Novelist. Juris Jurjevics was born in Tukums, Latvia, and died in the Bronx, New York. He immigrated to New York with his family in 1950. His first wife was the novelist and short story writer, Laurie Colwin, who died in 1992. He, along with Laura Chapman Hruska and Alan Hruska, was a founder of Soho Press.

Full Name

Juris Jurjevics

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Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Jurjevics was a graduated of Concordia Preparatory School in Bronxville, New York.

Unknown

LITWORK

Play the Red Queen


Novel.

1943

BIRTH

Juris Jurjevics was born in Tukums, Latvia, on April 26, 1943.

1986

OTHER

Mr. Jurjevics, along with Laura Chapman Hruska and Alan Hruska, was a co-founder of Soho Press in Manhattan, New York, in 1986.

2005

LITWORK

The Trudeau Vector
Viking Adult
9780670034376 / 978-0670034376
Novel.

2011

LITWORK

Red Flags
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0547564511 / 978-0547564517
Novel.

2018

DEATH

Juris Jurjevics died in the Bronx, New York, on November 7, 2018.

2018

RESIDENCE

Mr. Jurjevics lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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