Bom in Brooklyn, New York, Crone was raised in North Carolina and graduated from Goucher College in 1967.
She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975, where her teachers were Roman Jakobson, Kirill Taranovsky [ru], and Vsevolod Setchkarev [de].
[2] She entered the University of Chicago two years later (1977) and began working as Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Robert Bird, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, called the book a new chapter in the study of Russian philosophical discourse.
[2][1] This book, entitled Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal: The Philosophers and the Freudians (2010), focuses on four brilliant representatives of the "Russian Religious Renaissance" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—Vladimir Solovyov, Vasily Rozanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Boris Vysheslavtsev.