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Leif Enger

Biography

Leif Enger

Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel, PEACE LIKE A RIVER, which won the Booksense Award for Fiction and was named one of the Year's Best Books by Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. His second novel, SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME, was also a national bestseller. It was a Midwest Booksellers Honor Book, and won the High Plains Book Award for Fiction. His third novel, VIRGIL WANDER, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Library JournalBookpage and Chicago Public Library. He lives with his wife in Duluth, MN.

Leif Enger

Books by Leif Enger

by Leif Enger - Fiction

Set in the Minnesota countryside and North Dakota Badlands of the early 1960s, PEACE LIKE A RIVER is a moving, engrossing, beautifully told story about one family's quest to retrieve its most wayward member.