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Kurt Johnson
Kurt Johnson, along with his daughter Ellie, wrote The Barrens, winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Novel and Short Story and a 2022 Great Group Reads selection. Johnson divides his time between Minneapolis and Ely, Minnesota.
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The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic, with Ellie Johnson (Arcade/Skyhorse, 2022)
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