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PERSONAL: Born , in Latvia; married Jeanne Heifetz (a writer and editor).

ADDRESSES: Home—Brooklyn, NY. Office—Soho Press Inc., Broadway, New York, NY

CAREER: Worked in publishing, –; Soho Press, New York, NY, cofounder, publisher and mids–.

Military service: Served in U.S. military during Vietnam war.

WRITINGS:

The Trudeau Vector (novel), Viking (New York, NY),

Southwest Review, member of advisory board.

SIDELIGHTS: Juris Jurjevics was born in Latvia in He and his family lived in refugee camps in Germany for five years before they immigrated to the United States, where Jurjevics grew up in New York.

Jurjevics served in the Vietnam War, and then in got his start in the publishing industry. During the mids, he cofounded the independent Soho Press, where he serves as publisher.

Jurjevics's first novel, The Trudeau Vector, is a biotechnical thriller.

The story follows American epidemiologist Jessica Hanley as she travels to the northern p