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Autobiographical Sketch of Jim Kjelgaard

July 19, 2024

“Autobiographical Sketch of James Arthur Kjelgaard” This sketch was likely written circa 1950/51 and appeared on pages 178 – 179 of The Junior Book of Authors , Revised Second Edition, ed. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft [the original second edition was published in 1951]

Jim Kjelgaard's Arizona Home

December 11, 2023

1238 Palo Verde Drive in Phoenix, Arizona, was Jim Kjelgaard’s home from about 1952 until his death on July 12, 1959. Kjelgaard had been suffering from back pain, which was a lifelong ailment, and what his daughter, Karen, called “incipient arthritis” and so for health reasons the family moved to Arizona from their home in Thiensville, Wisconsin. Thiensville was a small farming community north of Milwaukee and quite close to Lake Michigan. Kjelgaard had a small office in their Phoenix home and wrote many of his best-known novels there, including, Lion Hound (1955), Desert Dog (1956), Wolf Brother (1957), Stormy (1959), and his two adult novels, The Lost Wagon (1955) and The Land is Bright (1958). Karen, in an essay, wrote: “As I grew up in Phoenix, I became more aware of how hard my father worked. It was not unusual for him to spend the entire day in his office, typing with two fingers on his old manual typewriter, then eat supper and go back to writing.”...

Quotes... from Big Red

December 09, 2023