William Kent Kruger, novelist, Vermilion Drift

In Vermilion Drift, novelist William Kent Krueger unwraps a gentle but page-turning mystery!

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 free-lance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He currently makes his living as a full-time author.

Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. The tenth book in his series, Vermilion Drift, was just released in September 2010. He does all his creative writing in booth #4 at the renowned St. Clair Broiler in St. Paul.

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