Paul, we lived at the edge of a quiet neighborhood called Tangletown. It was during this period that I began to write in earnest and to develop the habits that became the basis for the writing discipline I follow to this day.įor several years after moving to St. She gave birth to our second child in the first semester of her final year-and still made the Dean’s List. Paul, Minnesota so that Diane could attend law school. Then we conceived our first child and had to get serious about life. I married-that lovely Cornhusker named Diane-and we pretty much had a ball. Over the next few years, I logged a bit of timber, worked a lot of construction, published a few magazine articles, and generally enjoyed life. I’d met the woman I knew I wanted to marry, and she lived in Nebraska. Not only did the administration sic the riot police on me, they evaporated my academic scholarship, forcing me to leave after my freshman year. In the turbulent spring of 1970, during the height of the divisive Vietnam War, I joined in a takeover of the president’s office in protest of what I saw as the University’s complicity in the production of military weapons. I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1969. The only real constant in my life was the dream of becoming a writer. Before I graduated from high school, I’d lived in eleven different houses, in eight different cities, in six different states.
I was born in Torrington, Wyoming, to a family full of wanderlust.
Ordinary Grace, his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. The companion novel, This Tender Land, was published in September 2019 and spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list.
His last eleven novels were all New York Times bestsellers. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage-part Irish and part Ojibwe. Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. He’s been married for fifty years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. 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. Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University-before being kicked out for radical activities.
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