He wrote short stories and sketches for many years, but it was not until the age of 40 that he finished the manuscript of his first novel, Iron Lake. Throughout his early life, he supported himself by logging timber, digging ditches, working in construction, and being published as a freelance journalist. He attended Stanford University but his academic path was cut short when he came into conflict with the university's administration during student protests of spring 1970. Krueger has said that he wanted to be a writer from the third grade, when his story 'The Walking Dictionary' was praised by his teacher and parents. Only one other author has done this since the award's inception in 1986. In 20, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. The series is set mainly in Minnesota, USA. William Kent Krueger is an American author and crime writer, best known for the 13 novels of his Cork O'Connor series of books, ending with Tamarack County in 2013. Awards-Anthony Award's Best Novel (twice) Anthony Award's Best First Novel Loft-McKnight Award.

Education-Stanford University (no degree).With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath.

Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

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