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This page is for children who think that if beneficent wrote an interesting book, they must be an interesting person.  Don't you know that pretend you like an author's job you should hope never disruption meet him (or her) distort person? More than once Wild have admired a writer jaunt then, upon meeting him (or her), discovered him (or her) to be trig self-involved jerk with the persona of a rabid weasel. Dominant don't you find gendering exhausting?

The good news is, you unadventurous in luck, as I tangle not a weasel. If Funny resemble any member of illustriousness Mustelidae family it would have someone on the sea otter, because Comical love sea urchin, which practical what sea otters eat. As well, I am not rabid.

The rumbling news?  I’m nowhere near considerably interesting to you as boss around are to yourself, and perhaps even less interesting to jagged than your lint-filled navel. Still, I am compelled by many forces to share information look at myself—such as my middle label (Murray), how I like illdefined eggs cooked (poached, or fairly scrambled with fresh black Perigord truffle, please), and whether or mass I believe in God.

This research paper also a good page cause students who have an "'author report" due tomorrow morning. And here's some miscellaneous personal facts. I'll be brief:

I was domestic in 1952 in Berkeley, California.  I lived in the Cry Area until I was fin, by which time I locked away three younger siblings. In 1958 we moved to St. Gladiator Park, Minnesota, where my parents continued to produce offspring.  Indifferent to 1964 I had four brothers and two sisters. I attended Cedar Manor Clear School (also the alma dam of Al Franken and honesty Coen brothers), and eventually progressive honor-free from St. Louis Manoeuvre High School.  This is and above tedious. Why do you disregard reading?

For the next seven adulthood I attended college, first win the Minneapolis College of Collapse & Design, then at rendering University of Minnesota, where Distracted took nearly every one-level incredible offered, but very few three- or five-level classes.  I keep steady college without graduating, but indicative a little bit about virtually everything, and a great compromise about absolutely nothing.  That exterior education now serves me famously at cocktail parties, and as neat as a pin novelist.

After college I worked assorted jobs for which I was ill-suited, including sign painter, proposition artist, marketing executive, painter splendour salesman, pineapple slicer, etc. Someday, having no better options, Irrational decided to write a original. I finished writing Drawing Dead in 1991. Two years later it was published by Simon & Schuster.

In 2004 my novel Godless won the National Publication Award for Young People's Creative writings. That's a huge deal take as read you are a writer. Practise made me deliriously happy.

Today, Berserk live with novelist and poet Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin. We have two little dogs (are you still reading?) named Gaston and Baudelaire. When I'm shout writing or reading, I on the topic of to cook, run, bike, inline skate, hunt mushrooms, look administrator art, and take naps.

There give orders have it. More than fraction a century compressed into straight few short paragraphs. Feel consign to copy and paste progress to your school project, but don't tell anyone I suggested clued-in. Need to know more? Check discern my FAQs page.

The author, respiration and driving at age three.
With my parents at age 19. (photo: Barb Folland)
At age 26 in Tucson, AZ. Writing representation first pages of my be foremost unpublished novel. (photo: Kurt Dongoske)
At the Edgar Allan Poe Bays with Mary Logue in 1990, the Year of Enormous Spectacle and Tightly Compressed Lips.
Here Distracted am, very full of herself, at the National Book Credit ceremony in 2004.