William Kent Krueger
Books in Order
Name: William Kent Krueger
Born: 16 November, 1950
Place of birth: Torrington, Wyoming, USA
Resides: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
First book: Iron Lake
Previous employment: lumberjack
Fun fact #1: William was forty years old before he finished his first novel.
Fun fact #2: He likes getting up to start writing at dawn, a work practice he borrowed from Earnest Hemingway.
Awards (not an exhaustive list):
- Anthony Award
- Barry Award
- Loft-McKnight Fiction Award
William Kent Krueger Book List & Suggested Book Order
William Kent Krueger Interview
Ordinary Grace and Cork O'Connor series author, William Kent Krueger talks about his early life, which involved a lot of moving around the country, and how this has helped him create his locations and characters.
William Kent Krueger Biography
William Kent Krueger was born on the 16th of November in 1950, which was a Thursday. For those readers interested in all things astrological, that makes him a Scorpio, which is one of the Water signs.
William was born in Torrington, a small town of only around 6,500 residents located in Wyoming, which is a state in the United States of America. William has three siblings, one younger and two older. His early years were unsettled because his parents were quite poor and struggled to pay the rent on time. This meant they moved frequently. Not just house, but city, even state. By the time he graduated from high school, the family had moved 10 times, William having lived in eight cities across six states. Of all this time, he thinks back most fondly to Hood River, Oregon, which is over 1,100 miles from his birthplace of Torrington and has a population of around 7,100, so is just a tad bigger.
Despite all the moving around the country, William obviously did well at school because when it came to furthering his education, he earned a scholarship to attend the prestigious Stanford University, which is located in Silicon Valley in California and has a student body of around 16,000. It was while in his late teens that William decided he was going to…
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Author of Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger came to writing late in life at the age of 40, but not too late! His Cork O'Connor mysteries series has a loyal following of fans who are always eager to see more of the ex-sheriff investigating another mystery in the north woods of Minnesota and catching the bad guy. William's novels are so popular that many have been New York Times best sellers.
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