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Award-winning Minnesota author Kent Nerburn to read from new book Sept. 14 in Northfield

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September 11, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Award-winning Minnesota author Kent Nerburn will read from and sign copies of his new book Road Angels: Searching for Home on America?s Coast of Dreams on Friday, Sept. 14, in Northfield.

The reading, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in First United Church of Christ, 300 Union St. Nerburn will sign copies of Road Angels after the reading. The reading is co-sponsored by the St. Olaf Bookstore of St. Olaf College.

Road Angels: Searching for Home on America?s Coast of Dreams, is a book that brings the reader face-to-face with unexpected places and extraordinary people. Nerburn wrote it as a journey of profound insights about how the land that humans claim affects every aspect of their lives.

Phillip Zaleski, editor of The Best Spiritual Writing series, calls the book "a rattling good ride into the human heart ? A triumph of the spirit."

Nerburn, an award-winning author, also has written Letters to My Son , a book of essays that was a gift to his son; Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads, which won the Minnesota Book Award for 1995; Simple Truths: Clear and Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues of Life; A Haunting Reverence: Meditations On a Northern Land; and Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life.

Nerburn is an author, sculptor and educator who has been deeply involved in native American issues and education. He developed and directed an award-winning oral history project on Red Lake Ojibwa reservation in northern Minnesota.

In addition to being a program evaluator for the Minnesota Humanities Commission and serving on their selection board, Nerburn has served as a consultant in curriculum development for the American Indian Institute in Norman, Okla., and has been a presenter before various groups, including the national Indian Education Association and the President?s Blue Ribbon panel on Indian Education.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.