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My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

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My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

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I'm a Midwesterner.

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Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

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I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

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If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

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No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen.

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I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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