Leif Enger is an American author[1] who wrote the novel Peace Like a River.
Enger was born in 1961 and was raised in Osakis, Minnesota. His parents were teachers. He attended Minnesota State University Moorhead, majoring in English and mass communication.[2]
Enger worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio from 1984 until the sale of Peace Like a River, which won awards including the Alex Award from the American Library Association[3]. In the early 1990s, he and his older brother, Lin, writing under the pen name L.L. Enger, produced a series of mystery novels featuring a retired baseball player.[4]
His second solo novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome appeared in May 2008.[5]
In October 2018, his third novel, Virgil Wander, was published by Grove Press.[6]
His fourth novel, I Cheerfully Refuse, published April 2024, also by Grove Press.
Enger met his wife Robin at Moorhead State. They moved to a rural farm outside Aitkin, Minnesota to raise their two sons. When his children were grown, he and his wife moved to Duluth in 2018.[7]
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