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  1. Sep 8, 2023 · William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota.

  2. 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. [5] 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. [5]

  3. Nov 30, 2017 · “Being kicked out of Stanford made me realize that if I did go back to an academic setting, I wasn’t going to learn what I needed to learn to become a writer,” he said. So he logged timber, worked in construction and mopped hospital floors before landing a job as at the University of Minnesota with the Office of the Registrar and, later ...

  4. I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1969. In the turbulent spring of 1970, during the height of the divisive Vietnam War, I joined in a takeover of the president’s office in protest of what I saw as the University’s complicity in the production of military weapons.

  5. Krueger, William Kent 1950–PERSONAL: Born November 16, 1950, in Torrington, WY; father a high school English teacher, mother a musician; married; children: Seneca, Adam. Education: Attended Stanford University.

  6. Aug 31, 2013 · William Kent Kruegers twelve-year quest to make the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list is a tale as compelling as the ones he writes featuring Cork O’Connor, a half Ojibwe/half Irish private investigator in Minnesota’s remote north woods.

  7. Author: William Kent Krueger. Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of ...

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