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2004—If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…

Biography of Leif Enger

Leif Enger was born in 1961 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota to Don and Wilma Enger, a band leader and a teacher, respectively, at Osakis High School.

Leif Enger, author of 'Peace Like a River'

Enger met Robin Reed when they were both students at Moorhead State University, he studying English and she studying Education. They have been married for 20 years.

Enger worked as a reporter and producer for the Minnesota Public Radio program “Mainstreet Radio”for 16 years before the success of Peace Like a River.

Writing with his brother Lin under the pen name L.L. Enger, Enger co-wrote five mystery novels about a retired baseball player named Gun Pedersen for Pocket and Simon & Schuster in the early 1990s.

Enger currently lives on a 56-acre tract that includes farmland and forest near Aitkin, Minnesota with Robin, and their home-schooled sons, Ty and John. Peace Like a River is his debut novel.

 

 

 

"If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..."

2002: The Sweet Hereafter

2003: Kindred

2004: Peace Like a River

2005: Servants of the Map

2006: Name All the Animals

2007: Buffalo Soldier

2008: Hope and Other Dangerous Persuits

2009: Jim the Boy

2010: Bel Canto

2011: The Good Thief


 

Support for “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…” comes from The New York State Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. Local support provided by Flower City Printing; The Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation; and Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor and Wilson, LLP.