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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/William_Kent_Krueger_at_Common_Good_Books_-_cropped.jpg/300px-William_Kent_Krueger_at_Common_Good_Books_-_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/William_Kent_Krueger_at_Common_Good_Books_-_cropped.jpg/400px-William_Kent_Krueger_at_Common_Good_Books_-_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="3600" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Krueger at a book signing in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota" title="Saint Paul, Minnesota">Saint Paul, Minnesota</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1950-11-16</span>) </span>November 16, 1950<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 74)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Torrington,_Wyoming" title="Torrington, Wyoming">Torrington, Wyoming</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1998–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>, Native American Indian Tribes, <a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe" title="Anishinaabe">Anishinaabe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>Iron Lake,</i> Cork O'Connor Series</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Bush Artist Fellowship <br /> 1988 <br /> <p>Loft-McKnight Fiction Award <br /> 1998 <i>Iron Lake</i> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Award">Anthony Award</a> for Best First Novel <br /> 1999 <i>Iron Lake</i> <br /> Barry Award for Best First Novel <br /> 1999 <i>Iron Lake</i> <br /> Anthony Award for Best Novel <br /> 2005 <i>Blood Hollow</i> <br /> Anthony Award for Best Novel <br /> 2006 <i>Mercy Falls</i> <br /> </p> <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> for Best Novel <br /> 2013 <i>Ordinary Grace</i> <br /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.williamkentkrueger.com">www<wbr />.williamkentkrueger<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Kent Krueger</b> (born November 16, 1950) is an American novelist and <a href="/wiki/Crime_writer" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime writer">crime writer</a>, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O'Connor, which are set mainly in <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-authorsite_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-authorsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005 and 2006, he won back-to-back <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Award">Anthony Awards</a> for best novel.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, his stand-alone book <i><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_Grace" title="Ordinary Grace">Ordinary Grace</a></i> won the <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> for Best Novel of 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, <i><a href="/wiki/This_Tender_Land" title="This Tender Land">This Tender Land</a></i> was on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list for nearly six months.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biographical_details">Biographical details</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biographical details"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, but his academic path was cut short when he came into conflict with the university's administration during student protests of spring 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout his early life, he supported himself by logging timber, digging ditches, working in construction, and being published as a freelance journalist; he never stopped writing.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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, <i>Iron Lake.</i> It won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the <a href="/wiki/Barry_Award_(for_crime_novels)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Award (for crime novels)">Barry Award</a> for Best First Novel, the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Book_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Minnesota Book Award">Minnesota Book Award</a>, and the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Krueger is married and has two children. He lives in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota" title="Saint Paul, Minnesota">Saint Paul, Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-authorsite_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-authorsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_influences">Writing influences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Writing influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Krueger has said his favorite book is <i><a href="/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird" title="To Kill a Mockingbird">To Kill a Mockingbird</a></i>. He grew up reading <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>, <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>, and <a href="/wiki/James_T._Farrell" title="James T. Farrell">James T. Farrell</a>. Most influential among these was Hemingway. In an interview for <i>Shots</i> magazine, Krueger described his admiration for Hemingway's prose: </p> <blockquote><p>His prose is clean, his word choice perfect, his cadence precise and powerful. He wastes nothing. In Hemingway, what's not said is often the whole point of a story. I like that idea, leaving the heart off the page so that the words, the prose itself, is the first thing to pierce you. Then the meaning comes.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>As a mystery genre writer, Krueger credits <a href="/wiki/Tony_Hillerman" title="Tony Hillerman">Tony Hillerman</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Lee_Burke" title="James Lee Burke">James Lee Burke</a> as his strongest influences.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_process">Writing process</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing process"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Krueger prefers to write early in the morning. He began writing in his 30s and had to make time for writing early in the morning before going to work at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>. Rising at 5:30 am, he would go to the nearby St. Clair Broiler, where he would drink coffee and write longhand in wire-bound notebooks.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kaliber38_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kaliber38-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In return for his loyalty, the restaurant has hosted book launches for him. At one of them, the staff wore T-shirts emblazoned with "A nice place to visit. A great place to die."<sup id="cite_ref-citypages_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-citypages-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The St. Clair Broiler permanently closed in the fall of 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Setting_for_the_Cork_O'Connor_series"><span id="Setting_for_the_Cork_O.27Connor_series"></span>Setting for the Cork O'Connor series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Setting for the Cork O'Connor series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Krueger decided to set the series in northern Minnesota, he realized that a large percentage of the population was of mixed ancestry. In college, he had wanted to become a <a href="/wiki/Cultural_anthropologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural anthropologist">cultural anthropologist</a>; he became intrigued by researching the <a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> culture and weaving the information into his books. His books are set in and around Native American reservations. The main character, Cork O'Connor, is part Ojibwe and part Irish.<sup id="cite_ref-simonsays_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-simonsays-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>History was a study in futility. Because people never learned. Century after century, they committed the same atrocities against one another or against the earth, and the only thing that changed was the magnitude of the slaughter... Conscience was a devil that plagued the individual. Collectively, a people squashed it as easily as stepping on a daisy.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>William Kent Krueger, <i>Purgatory Ridge</i></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Krueger has read the first Ojibwe historian, <a href="/wiki/William_Whipple_Warren" title="William Whipple Warren">William Whipple Warren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor" title="Gerald Vizenor">Gerald Vizenor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basil_Johnston" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Johnston">Basil Johnston</a>. He has also read novels by <a href="/wiki/Louise_Erdrich" title="Louise Erdrich">Louise Erdrich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Northrup_(writer)" title="Jim Northrup (writer)">Jim Northrup</a>. Krueger began to meet the Ojibwe people because of his interest in their culture.<sup id="cite_ref-simonsays_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-simonsays-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Krueger believes that the sense of place is made resonant by the actions and emotions of the characters within it. He describes it as "a dynamic bond that has the potential to heighten the drama of every scene."<sup id="cite_ref-bookreporter_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bookreporter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cork_O'Connor"><span id="Cork_O.27Connor"></span>Cork O'Connor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cork O'Connor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iron_Lake_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iron Lake (novel) (page does not exist)">Iron Lake</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pocket_Books" title="Pocket Books">Pocket Books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, hardcover (1998), <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-01696-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-01696-2">0-671-01696-2</a></li> <li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, paperback (1999), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-01697-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-01697-0">0-671-01697-0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recorded_Books" title="Recorded Books">Recorded Books</a> (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4407-5520-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-4407-5520-5">1-4407-5520-5</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5520-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5520-0">978-1-4407-5520-0</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Boundary_Waters_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boundary Waters (novel) (page does not exist)">Boundary Waters</a></i> <ul><li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (1999), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-01698-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-01698-9">0-671-01698-9</a></li> <li>Recorded Books (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4407-5524-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-4407-5524-8">1-4407-5524-8</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5524-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5524-8">978-1-4407-5524-8</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Purgatory_Ridge_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Purgatory Ridge (novel) (page does not exist)">Purgatory Ridge</a></i> <ul><li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2001), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-04753-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-04753-1">0-671-04753-1</a></li> <li>Recorded Books (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4407-5528-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-4407-5528-0">1-4407-5528-0</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5528-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4407-5528-6">978-1-4407-5528-6</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blood_Hollow" title="Blood Hollow">Blood Hollow</a></i> <ul><li>Atria, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2004), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-4586-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-4586-4">0-7434-4586-4</a></li> <li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, paperback (2005), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-4587-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-4587-2">0-7434-4587-2</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_Falls_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercy Falls (book)">Mercy Falls</a></i> <ul><li>Atria, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2005), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-4588-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-4588-0">0-7434-4588-0</a></li> <li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, paperback (2006), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-4589-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-4589-9">0-7434-4589-9</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Copper_River_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Copper River (novel) (page does not exist)">Copper River</a></i> <ul><li>Atria, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2006), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-7840-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-7840-2">0-7432-7840-2</a></li> <li>Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, paperback (2007), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4165-1446-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-4165-1446-5">1-4165-1446-5</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thunder_Bay_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thunder Bay (novel) (page does not exist)">Thunder Bay</a></i> <ul><li>Atria, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2007), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-7841-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-7841-0">0-7432-7841-0</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2009), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-5782-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-5782-4">978-1-4391-5782-4</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Knife_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red Knife (novel) (page does not exist)">Red Knife</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2008), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5674-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5674-9">978-1-4165-5674-9</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2009), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5675-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5675-6">978-1-4165-5675-6</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heaven%27s_Keep&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heaven's Keep (page does not exist)">Heaven's Keep</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2009), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5676-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5676-3">978-1-4165-5676-3</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1416556770" title="Special:BookSources/978-1416556770">978-1416556770</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vermilion_Drift&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vermilion Drift (page does not exist)">Vermilion Drift</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2010), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1439153840" title="Special:BookSources/978-1439153840">978-1439153840</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2011), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1439153871" title="Special:BookSources/978-1439153871">978-1439153871</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Angle_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northwest Angle (novel) (page does not exist)">Northwest Angle</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2011), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1439153956" title="Special:BookSources/978-1439153956">978-1439153956</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2012), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1439153963" title="Special:BookSources/978-1439153963">978-1439153963</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Trickster%27s_Point_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trickster's Point (novel) (page does not exist)">Trickster's Point</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2012), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645675" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645675">978-1451645675</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2013), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645712" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645712">978-1451645712</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tamarack_County_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tamarack County (novel) (page does not exist)">Tamarack County</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2013), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645750" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645750">978-1451645750</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2014), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645774" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645774">978-1451645774</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windigo_Island_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Windigo Island (novel) (page does not exist)">Windigo Island</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2014), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1476749235" title="Special:BookSources/978-1476749235">978-1476749235</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2015), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1476749242" title="Special:BookSources/978-1476749242">978-1476749242</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manitou_Canyon_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manitou Canyon (novel) (page does not exist)">Manitou Canyon</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, hardcover (2016), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1476749266" title="Special:BookSources/978-1476749266">978-1476749266</a></li> <li>Atria Books, trade paperback (2017), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1476749273" title="Special:BookSources/978-1476749273">978-1476749273</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sulphur_Springs_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sulphur Springs (novel) (page does not exist)">Sulphur Springs</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, Hardcover (2017), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1501147340" title="Special:BookSources/978-1501147340">978-1501147340</a></li> <li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, Trade Paperback (2018), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1501147432" title="Special:BookSources/978-1501147432">978-1501147432</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Desolation_Mountain_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Desolation Mountain (novel) (page does not exist)">Desolation Mountain</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books (2018), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1501147463" title="Special:BookSources/978-1501147463">978-1501147463</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lightning_Strike_(novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lightning Strike (novel) (page does not exist)">Lightning Strike</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books (2021), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1982128685" title="Special:BookSources/978-1982128685">978-1982128685</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>Fox Creek</i> <ul><li>Atria Books (2022), ISBN 978-1982128715</li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stand-alone_novels">Stand-alone novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Stand-alone novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Devil's Bed</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atria_(imprint)" class="mw-redirect" title="Atria (imprint)">Atria</a> Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2003), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7434-6636-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-7434-6636-5">0-7434-6636-5</a></li> <li>Pocket Star paperback (2003)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_Grace" title="Ordinary Grace">Ordinary Grace</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2013), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645828" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645828">978-1451645828</a></li> <li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, trade paperback (2014), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1451645859" title="Special:BookSources/978-1451645859">978-1451645859</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Tender_Land" title="This Tender Land">This Tender Land</a></i> <ul><li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2019), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1476749297" title="Special:BookSources/978-1476749297">978-1476749297</a></li></ul></li> <li>“The River We Remember” <ul><li>Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, hardcover (2023), ISBN 978-1-9821-7921-2</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anthologies">Anthologies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Anthologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Before Swine" in <i>The Silence of the Loons</i>, Nodin Press (soft cover, 2005)</li> <li>"Hixton" in <i>Crimes By Moonlight</i>, Berkley Publishing (ebook, 2010)</li> <li>"Bums" in <i>USA Noir</i>, Akashic Books (soft cover, 2013)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bush Artist Fellowship, 1988</li> <li>Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, 1998 (for<i>Iron Lake</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Book_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Minnesota Book Award">Minnesota Book Award</a>, 1999 (for <i>Iron Lake</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Award">Anthony Award</a> for Best First Novel, 1999 (for <i>Iron Lake</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Award_(for_crime_novels)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Award (for crime novels)">Barry Award</a> for Best First Novel, 1999 (for <i>Iron Lake</i>)</li> <li>Friends of American Writers Prize, 1999</li> <li>Minnesota Book Award, 2002 (for <i>Purgatory Ridge</i>)</li> <li>Readers Choice Award, 2003</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Award">Anthony Award</a> for Best Novel, 2005 (for <i>Blood Hollow</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Award">Anthony Award</a> for Best Novel, 2006 (for <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_Falls_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercy Falls (book)">Mercy Falls</a></i>)</li> <li>Minnesota Book Award, 2007 (for <i>Copper River</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Minnesota_Book_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeastern Minnesota Book Award">Northeastern Minnesota Book Award</a>, 2007 (for <i>Thunder Bay</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilys_Award" title="Dilys Award">Dilys Award</a>, 2008 (for <i>Thunder Bay</i>)</li> <li>Minnesota Book Award, 2008 (for <i>Thunder Bay</i>)</li> <li>Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, 2013 (for <i>Ordinary Grace</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a>, 2013 (for <i>Ordinary Grace</i>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kent_Krueger&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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