William Kent Krueger
Life
William Kent Krueger grew by frequently changing places of residence of his parents in various U.S. states, however, referred to Oregon as his home. He attended high school in Hood River ( Oregon) and Manteca ( California). After graduation, he began studying at Stanford University in California, which he left in the summer of 1970 after disputes with the university administration for its commitment at the political student protests against the Vietnam War for a short time. After two more years at a college in Colorado, he earned his living with a variety of activities such as forest workers, in construction, freelancers and last as an employee in a research laboratory.
Krueger read since his youth like American classic by John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James T. Farrell, or Ernest Hemingway. The latter also influenced Krueger's later work style: How Heminway he developed an early riser, and even wrote his starting work at The St. Clair Broiler, a small café in Tangletown, not far from Saint Paul, to short stories and other manuscripts. The result was also his first successful novel Iron Lake, on which he worked from 1992 to 1996. Thanks to the great success Krueger was able to devote himself full time to writing later. William Kent Krueger is married and lives with his wife Diane in Saint Paul ( Minnesota) and has two children, daughter and son Adam Seneca.
Main protagonist of his most gambling in Minnesota novels Ex - sheriff Cork O'Connor, half Irish, half from the Indian tribe of the Anishinabe. Background for the selection of the protagonist was a native of his college time love of anthropology and enthusiasm for the ethnic novels Tony Hiller Mans. Krueger worked intensively with the culture of the Anishinabe to meet with a sensitive understanding they can.
Awards
Works
Cork O'Connor series
Other
- 2003 The Devil 's Bed