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Dave Kenney

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in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, History

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Dave Kenney is a novelist, freelance writer, and two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award.

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	Minnesota in the '70s by Dave Kenney (Goodreads Author), Thomas Saylor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front during World War II by Dave Kenney (Goodreads Author), Wendell R. Anderson (Foreword) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northern Lights: The Stories of Minnesota's Past, 2nd Edition by Dave Kenney (Goodreads Author), Hillary Wackman, Nancy O'Brien Wagner 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twin Cities Picture Show: A Century of Moviegoing 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twin Cities Album 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grain Merchants: An Illustrated History of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Helium really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gustavus: 150 Years of History 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor Bright: A Century of Scouting in Northern Star Council it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Years of Music: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra by Dave Kenney (Goodreads Author), Dave Kenny liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Inside the Novel: Precision Power

In his recent profile of author Colson Whitehead, New Yorker staff writer Julian Lucas offered up the following description of Whitehead’s research process for the 1970s-set novel, Crook Manifesto:

Whitehead trawled the front pages of every New York Times from the period, read mayors’ memoirs and the autobiography of a mobster’s widow, and watched strangers’ digitized 8-mm. footage on YouTub

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As a born-and-bred Minnesotan, I was excited to read Rebeca Lee Morales’s Winter Song. It did not disappoint. The book is a slow-burn mystery (of sorts) with a vivid sense of time, place, and character. Winter Song’s 1980s-era Montevideo, Minnesota i ...more
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