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I grew up outdoors on a Minnesota farm in the 1950’s not far from the novel’s fictional Alton County. My off-farm education included a vocational high school and then history degrees from Macalester College and the University of Minnesota. Despite the credentials of a professor, I ditched an academic career to conduct public affairs for various corporate, non-profit and government agencies without losing my rural roots and sensibilities.

My parents read to me as a child, my mother was a librarian, and from them I learned that books were portals to worlds far beyond our farm. From neighbors who were second-generation Americans, I heard the vernacular literature of stories well-told over coffee.

I believe writers work from the same urge that ...more

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