Minnesota Authors of Fiction
Most of the following authors were born and/or raised in Minnesota. Those who are not natives either live or have lived in the state. The titles listed are owned by the Duluth Public Library
Agee, Jonis - Strange Angels, etc.
Anderson, Scott D. - Unknown Rider
Ashcroft, Laura - Heart of Fire (Duluth Collection)*
Banning, Margaret Culkin - Mesabi ; The Will of Magda Townsend
; etc.
Barr, Roger - Treasure Hunt
Baxter, Charles - First Light ; etc.
Benitez, Sandra - Bitter Grounds, etc.
Blakely, Roger - Schubert's Daughter
Bly, Carol - The Tomcat's Wife ; etc.
Brockway, Connie - The Bridal Season; etc.
Brown, Rita - The Monet Deception
Cameron, Don - Keeper of the Town
Camp, John - The Empress Files, etc.
Carter, Emily - Glory Goes and Gets Some
Chao, Evelina - Gates of Grace
Coleman, Linda - Seeking Out Harry
Colson, Constance - Chase the Dream
Curtiss, Lora Lee - Patsy 1941
Daglish, Cass - Nin
Disch, Thomas - The M.D., etc.
Dorner, Marjorie - Seasons of Sun and Rain, etc.
Dunn, Anne M. - Grandmother's Gift ; When Beaver Was Very
Good
Eagle, Kathleen - The Last True Cowboy ; etc.
Eilola, Patricia - A Finntown of the Heart ; etc.
Emberg, Buck - The Last Whistle of Summer (Minnesota Collection)*
Enger, Leif - Peace Like a River
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby; etc.
Flannery, Sean - Kilo Option ; Counterstrike ; etc.
Flynn, Vince - Term Limits; etc.
Friedman, George - A Time to Dream
Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere ; etc.
Gibbon, Maureen - Swimming Sweet Arrow
Gifford, Thomas - Wind Chill Factor ; Cavanaugh Quest ;
etc.
Gilseth, Margaret - Julia's Children
Glancy, Diane - Pushing the Bear ; etc.
Goldberg, Natalie - Banana Rose
Gonzolez, Ray - The Ghost of John Wayne
Greenberg, Alvin - How the Dead Live, etc.
Greiman, Lois - Highland Jewel ; etc.
Guest, Judith - Ordinary People ; Errands ; Second Heaven
Hack, Edris - Candles in the Wind (Minnesota Collection)
*
Hagberg, David - High Flight ; Crossfire ; etc.
Handberg, Ron - Cry Vengence ; etc.
Harder, Robert O. - The Devil's Holiday
Harfenquist, Jean - A Brief History of the Flood
Hassler, Jon - Grand Opening ; Dean's List ; Staggerford
; etc
Haugland, Cynthia - Francheska (Minnesota Collection) *
Hautman, Pete - The Mortal Nuts ; etc.
Haynes, David - Somebody Else's Mama ; etc.
Hegg, Tom - Mark of the Maker
Hill, Rebecca - Blue Rise; etc.
Hoag, Tami - Night Sins ; Cry Wolf ; etc.
Hong, Edna - The Way of the Sacred Tree (Minnesota Collection)*
Hubbard, Margaret Ann - Little Whirlwind ; Lone Boy ; Halloran's
Hill; etc.
Hustvedt, Siri - The Enchantment of Lili Dahl
Johnson, Susan - Blaze ; Sinful ; Taboo ; etc.
Johnson, Wayne - Six Crooked Highways, etc.
Kearney, Robert - Hole in the Water
Keillor, Garrison - Lake Wobegon Days ; Wobegon Boy ; etc.
Kelby, Nicole - In the Company of Angels
Klassen, Duke - Dance Hall at Spring Lake
Krahn, Betina - Love's Brazen Fire ; The Mermaid ; etc.
Krause, Herbert - Oxcart Trail ; The Thresher ; Wind Without
Rain
Kraywinkle, Jack - Northern Lights
LaDuke, Winona - Last Standing Woman
Laitala, Lynn Marie - Down from Basswood
Landvik, Lorna - Patty Jane's House of Curl ; Your Oasis
on Flame Lake; etc.
Larsen, Eric - American Memory
Le Sueur, Meridel - Winter Prairie Woman ; Corn Village
; etc.
Lee, Art - Jackpine Savage (Minnesota Collection)*
Lemberg, Laurie - St. Croix Avenue
Leonard, Michael - FBN
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street ; Babbitt; Cass Timberlaine
; etc.
Lindvall, Michael - Good News from North Haven
Logan, Chuck - The Big Law ; etc.
Long, David Ryan - Ezekiel's Shadow
Long, Judith (Duluth author) - Last Mass of the Knights
Templar
Lovelace, Maud Hart - Early Candlelight ; The Gentleman
from England
McColley, Kevin - Praying to a Laughing God
McConnell, Jean Samuel - A Farm at Shawndo (Minnesota Collection)*
McDonald, Bill - Dakota Incarnate
McGauley, Pat - To Bless or To Blame; A Blessing or a Curse;
Blest Those Who Sorrow; The Hibbing Hurt
McGhee, Alison - Rainlight
McGowan, Wynema - The Irishman ; etc.
McGregor, Robert Kuhn - All Fall Down
Malone, P. M. - Out of the Nest (Minnesota Collection)*
Manfred, Frederick - The Scarlet Plume; Lord Grizzly ;
Green Earth ; etc.
Marvin, Isabel - A Bridge for Anna's Papa (Minnesota Collection)*
Meyers, Kent - Light in the Crossing, etc.
Muske-Dukes, Carol - Life After Death
O'Brien, Tim - In the Lake in the Woods ; Northern Lights
; etc.
Ogley, Dorothy Cleland - Iron Land
Olson, Shannon - Welcome to My Planet
O'Meara, Walter - Minnesota Gothic ; Grand Portage ; etc.
Ostenso, Martha - Wild Geese ; O River Remember ; A Man
Had Tall Sons
Pate, Alexs - Finding Makeba ; Losing Absalom ; Amistad
Paulsen, Gary - The Madonna
Pelton, Sonya T. - Tiger Rose ; Heavensent ; etc.
Peterson, Carrol - Sugarloft Hill (Minnesota Collection)*
Peyton, John - Faces in the Firelight
Powers, J. F. - Morte d'Urban ; etc.
Prill, David - The Unnatural ; etc.
Proctor, Ellen - Turning Leaves
Qualey, Marsha - Hometown ; Come in from the Cold
Reinken, Patrick - Judgement Day
Ridley, William - Mystic Chords
Rockcastle, Mary - Rainy Lake
Roers, Walter - The Pact
Rolvaag, O.E. - Peder Victorious; Pure Gold ; etc.
Roth, Martha - Goodness
Roy, Patricia - Lucky Stars ; Wedding Knot
Rumsey, Timothy - Pictures from a Trip (Minnesota Collection)*
Sandford, John - Silent Prey; The Night Crew ; etc.
Sanford, Winifred - Windfall
Sangster, Hazel - Thicker Than Water (Duluth Collection)*
Santa, Clif - The Last Mission
Savage, Mike - Something in the Water
Schneider, Bart - Blue Bossa; etc.
Schofield, Mary - River of Champions
Schumacher, Claire W. - Ghostly Tales of Lake Superior
; Ore Dust on Her Shoes
Schumacher, Julie - The Body is Water ; An Explaination
for Chaos
Scott, Trevor - Company of Thieves
Seymour, Ana - Father for Keeps, etc.
Sharp, Mary - Bobbi (Minnesota Collection)*
Sharratt, Mary - Summit Avenue
Sheffer, Roger - Borrowed Voices
Shulman, Max - Barefoot Boy With Cheek ; etc.
Sizemore, Susan - My First Duchess ; etc.
Smith, Janet Elaine - A Christmas Dream
Soetebier, Virginia - Woman of the Green Glade
Spencer, LaVyrle - The Fulfillment ; The Endearment ; Bygones
; etc.
Stein, Robert - The Chase ; Apollyon (Minnesota/Duluth
Collections)*
Sterrett, Frances - Years of Achievement (Minnesota Collection)*
Stoller, Larry - Broker's Open
Stonich, Sarah - These Granite Islands
Sullivan, Dave - The Case Against Digger Moss
Sullivan, Faith - The Cape Ann ; etc.
Sutter, Barton - My Father's War and Other Stories
Swenson, David - The Interfacers
Thayer, Steve - Saint Mudd ; The Weatherman
Tomfohr, Alice - Raw Iron (Minnesota Collection)*
Treuer, David - Little
Turngren, Ellen - Hearts are the Field ; Shadows Into Mist
Tyler, Anne - The Accidental Tourist ; etc.
Ursu, Anne - Spilling Clarence
Valentine, Zena - Star Crossed Lovers, etc.
Vogel, Theodore - Killer Bass Helix
Weaver, Will - Gravestone Made of Wheat ; Red Earth, White
Earth
Weber, Christin Lore - Alter Music
Williams, Bob - Ozark Flats
Williams, Thomas (Duluth author) - Whipple's Castle ; Tsuga's
Children
Woodiwiss, Kathleen E. - The Flame and the Flower ; A Rose
in Winter ; etc.
Wright, Scott - The Lynching of John Hanson (Minnesota
Collection)*
Wubbels, Lance - Far From the Dream ; etc.
Verzuh, Julie Welle - From the Heart of Lizzie (Minnesota
Collection)*
Vizenor, Gerald - Hotline Healers ; etc.
Mysteries
Adams, Harold - The Ditched Blond; etc.
Bailey, Jo - Bagged ; Erased ; Recycled
Becklund, Jack - The Golden Fleece
Childs, Laura - Death by Darjeeling; Gunpowder Green; Keepsake
Crimes; Photo Finished; etc.
Clark, Robert - Mr. Clark's Confession
Dennis, Pat - Hotdish to Die For
Dorner, Marjorie - Freeze Frame
Drury, Joan - Silent Words ; Other Side of Silence ; Closed
in Silence; etc.
Enger, L. L. - Sinner's League; etc.
Fluke, Joanne - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, etc.
Ferris, Monica - Crewel World; Framed in Lace
Frazer, Margaret - Bishop's Tale; etc.
Green, Kate - Night Angel; Black Dreams; Shooting Star
Guest, Judith - Killing Time in St. Cloud
Gunn, Elizabeth - Triple Play; Par Four
Hart, Ellen - Jane Lawless series; Sophie Greenway series
Hills, Kathleen - Past Imperfect
Hong, Edna - Wild, Blue Berries
Housewright, David - Penance; Practice to Deceive; Dearly
Departed
Hovey, Dean - Where Evil Hides
Hubbard, Margaret Ann (Duluth author) - Murder Takes the
Veil ; Sister Simon's Murder Case (Duluth Collection)*
Krueger, William Kent - Iron Lake; Boundary Waters; etc.
Lafavor, Carole - Along the Journey River ; Evil Dead Center
Lake, M.D. (psd. for Allen Simpson) - Grave Choices; Amends
for Murder; etc.
Lileks, James - Mr. Obvious ; Falling Up the Stairs
Logue, Mary - Still Explosion; Blood Country
Millett, Larry - Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon ; Sherlock
Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders ; etc.
Munger, Mark - The Legacy
Olsen, Jimmy - Things in Ditches
Paulsen, Gary - Kill Fee ; Night Rituals
Pulver, Mary Monica - Ashes to Ashes; Murder at the War;
etc.
Seeley, Mabel - Listening House ; Beckoning Door; Chuckling
Fingers; Eleven Came Back; Whistling Shadow
Sparrow, Thomas - Northwoods Pulp, Fatally Flawed, Northwoods
Standoff
Taylor, L. A. - Footnote to Murder ; Love of Money ; Poetic
Justice ; Deadly Objectives; Shed Light on Death; A Murder Waiting
to Happen
Trainor, J. F. (Duluth author) - Corona Blue ; High Country
Murder; Target for Murder; Whiskey Jack
Woodworth, Deborah - Death of a Winter Shaker; A Deadly
Shaker Spring;
Sins of a Shaker Summer
Zimmerman, R. D. - Tribe ; Blood Trance; Closet; Hostage;
Outburst; Innuendo
Science
Fiction and Fantasy
Brust, Steven - Brokedown Palace ; Jhereg ; etc.
Bujold, Lois McMaster - Komarr ; Memory ; etc.
Bull, Emma - Falcon ; etc
Dalkey, Kara - Goa ; Bijapur ; etc.
Dean, Pamela C. - Dubious Hills ; etc.
Dickson, Gordon - Wolfling ; Masters of Everon ; etc.
Rosenberg, Joel - Hero ; D'shai ; etc.
Simak, Clifford - City ; Highway of Eternity ; Way Station
; etc.
Steussy, Marti - Dreams of Dawn ; Forest of the Night
Wrede, Patricia - Caught in Crystal ; The Raven Ring ;
etc.
Westerns
Brandvold, Peter- Once a Marshall, etc.
Garrisen, Paul - Dirk's Revenge
Paulsen, Gary - Murphy ; Murphy's Gold ; etc.
*Items in the Duluth or Minnesota Collections cannot be checked out of the library.
10/10/09
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN
