Alex Kramer was born in Budapest, Hungary, and arrived in America as a refugee in 1949. He would return to Hungary first in 1979 and many times since—a journey that mirrors something essential about how the past never quite lets go.
His education traces an unlikely arc: Jewish Day Schools, undergraduate work in mathematics, and a Master's in Talmudic Law. He spent four decades in Fortune 500 companies and as a partner at a major consulting firm, working with C-level executives around the globe. And through all of it, maintaining an Orthodox Jewish life—with the particular charms and challenges that combination implies.
History has been his constant companion. Years of reading nonfiction led him to historical fiction, and historical fiction led him back to history — a productive loop that deepened his interest in his past and, eventually, made it irresistible to write about. After forty-plus years of crafting speeches, white papers, presentations, and proposals in the business world, he made the leap across what he describes as a very wide chasm into historical fiction: the place where the stories that had been living inside him all along are finding their voice.
He lives with his wife of 58 years in Boca Raton, Fl.