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William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Fox Creek, Desolation Mountain and Sulfur Springs.
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William Krueger is an American author and crime writer born on November 16, 1950 in Torrington, Wyoming, born as a the third child of four children. William is well known for his Cork O’Connor series of books, which is set mainly in Minnesota, USA. Before William graduated from high school, he had lived in eleven different houses, in eight differen...
William Krueger attended Stanford University but this only lasted for one year. In the spring of 1970 as he explains, he understood the school’s administration and didn’t agree with the political issues that were emerging. The school for example, did not look into his participation in a takeover of the president’s protest which he saw as the Univer...
During his life, William Krueger has written many publications that cannot fit in this biography. However some of his latest writings include the Northwest Angle written in 2011, the Trickster’s Point in 2012, and the Tamarack County in 2013. His current work is the Windigo Island which is due August 2014. Additionally, he also have stand-alone whi...
Part Anishinaabe Indian, Part Irish, Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor is described in the writing as Sheriff of Aurora in Minnesota which has a population of 3,752. As a cop, he is embittered over marital breakup that has left him separated from his children and wife and also losing his job. This character (Cork) gets on, through heavy doses of nicotine, c...
In this writing, an explosion at lumber mill rips out on a calming summer morning. It kills a traditional chief in Iron Lake Ojibwe. A former sheriff of Tarmarack County, Minnesota, Cork O’Connor finds himself caught in the battle the Indian and his white cultural heritage once again. An Eco Worrior claims responsibility of the bombing but this lea...
After William left Stanford, he had to support himself in the later years logging timber, working on construction sites and also publishing his work on few magazines. He wrote short stories and sketches for many years, but this was not until the age of 40 when he finished the manuscript of his first novel, “Iron Lake”. This novel went ahead to win ...
William married his wife by the name Diane. They then conceived their first child, a daughter by the name Seneca. In summer of 1980, they moved to St. Paul, Minnesota so that Diane could attend law school. She gave birth to their second child, Adam, when she was in the first semester of her final year and still made it to the Dean’s list. It was du...
At the age of nineteen, William Krueger wanted to be like Hemingway and read everything about him. In the course of his reading, he stumbled onto a couple pieces of information that concerned Hemingway lifestyle, which he tried to incorporate into his way of being. He discovered that Hemingway must have been made of rigid stuff, which made him go b...
For several years after moving to St. Paul, they lived at the edge of a quiet neighborhood (Tangle Town). A café called the St. Clair Broiler stood few blocks away and opened its doors at 6:00 a.m. He began rising at 5:30 to start and prepare for the rest of the day. He would then head to the boiler and spend one hour writing before he would start ...
Currently William Kent Krueger is a full time writer and still has to get up at the crack of dawn. He still gives visits to the broiler where he spends a couple of hours hunched over his notebook as the sun rises over the shops across the street and the traffic starts to fill the Snelling Avenue. For him, this is still the best time of the day as h...
William Kent Krueger (born November 16, 1950) is an American novelist and crime writer, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O'Connor, which are set mainly in Minnesota. In 2005 and 2006, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. [2]
Krueger es autor de novelas de misterio, tipo policiaca, desarrolladas en ambientes rurales, siendo conocido por títulos como El susurro del Wéndigo o La caza del Shiloh, dos de sus libros traducidos al castellano.
12 de may. de 2024 · William Kent Krueger. Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota.
