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Kris Farmen

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The United States
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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Influences
Federico Garcia Lorca, Jim Harrison, Luis Alberto Urrea, Pablo Neruda, ...more

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April 2023


I'm what is sometimes referred to as a critically acclaimed author, which is to say critics have on occasion said nice things about my books. I write both contemporary fiction and historical fiction, often with a fabulist twist, but for me there's not a lot of daylight between the past and the present. As far back as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with history, but for me it’s just the aggregate of every human life that has come and gone upon the earth. Each one of those lives is a story, and history keeps happening all around us, just as it always has. As William Faulkner famously said, the past is never dead. It's not even past.

My books generally involve Alaska and the circumpolar North, but that isn’t a hard and fast rule. In fact, I ...more

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“I have heard about you Americans and your one-handed muskets!” he shouted down at Pearce, shaking the revolver at him like a snake he’d snatched up from the ground. “What kind of useless men think they can fix every problem by pointing a gun?”
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“I have heard about you Americans and your one-handed muskets!” he shouted down at Pearce, shaking the revolver at him like a snake he’d snatched up from the ground. “What kind of useless men think they can fix every problem by pointing a gun?”
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