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What History Has Taught Me: Ron Hansen, Author

by | Nov 28, 2016 | Departments, What History Has Taught Me

Growing up in Omaha, Ron Hansen found the Old West present in Nebraska’s cornfields, wilderness and railroad tracks full of empty boxcars. Following his U.S. Army career, he earned an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1974, held the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford University and ear


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