is one of the most insightful writers on contemporary popular culture. He lives it, he understands it, and he explores it with intelligence and wit in such bestselling books as Fargo Rock City (2001), Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2003), and Killing Yourself to Live (2005). He is a columnist for Esquire and has written for GQ, Spin, The New York Times Magazine, and The Believer.
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, whose Fletch series of mystery novels sold millions of copies, died at the age of 71, after being diagnosed with cancer. McDonald, also a journalist for the Boston Globe, was twice a winner of the Edgar Award and the author of 26 books.
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's award-winning fiction include Sitting Opposite My Brother, A Year of Lesser, See the Child, and The Case of Lena S. His 2005 novel The Time in Between took him to a whole new level and earned him an international readership.
His latest novel, The Retreat, opens in 1973 outside Kenora when a policeman leaves an eighteen-year-old Ojibway boy for dead on a remote island. The haunting, finely nuanced tale that follows reveals the clash of two cultures. It is the story of two brothers separated in childhood, a complicated love between a white girl and a native boy, and a family on the verge of splintering forever. Bergen will be at our on to launch The Retreat.
Bergen recently took the time to answer some questions for our website. The interview was conducted by McNally Robinson staff member .
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In September , the Canadian author of over 50 novels for children and young adults, will be in Winnipeg to receive the 2008 MYRCA - Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award for his powerful novel, We All Fall Down.
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Miriam answers my questions about life, writing, and transplants.
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