(Glasshouse Images/Alamy Photos) I recently kicked the hornet’s nest on Twitter. A Minnesota author I know posted a cover photo of her forthcoming young adult…
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I’m a writer from the upper Midwest. I live in northern Minnesota on the Mississippi River not from its headwaters. I’ve published novels with Farrar Straus and Giroux, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and have had two film adaptations. I lead both an outdoor and a literary life. In 2011 I was a fiction judge for the National Book Awards, but I also love snowshoeing across a silent snowy field. If you’re a reader or writer on your own path, thanks for visiting my site. You’ll find fiction and nonfiction for adults and young adults. If you enjoy the conversation of a literary life, take a look at my blog, “In The Write.”
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The post-apocalyptic future is near, and the Newell family escape to the safety of their summer cabin to survive in the new world.
Read moreA collection of hand-picked stories that offer a vivid portrait of swirling, intergenerational changes in the Midwest.
Read moreTwo years ago, the ash started falling like gray snow. Now Miles and Sarah must adapt to a changing world.
Read moreIn the summer of '65, high school sophomore-to-be Paul lands a job outside his communal farm, and begins to see the real nature of adults.
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July 4th, 2020
(Glasshouse Images/Alamy Photos) I recently kicked the hornet’s nest on Twitter. A Minnesota author I know posted a cover photo of her forthcoming young adult…
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Why? For what reason are you writing it? The subject is no small matter. Freud maintained that we do things for one or more of…
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Let’s say a good chunk of your novel is done. But then real life catches up with you. Family, work, health– any of the zillion…
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