The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published under his own name, but the publisher asked him to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey ('Prey' series), so it was published under the name John Sandford. In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn a popular series. White.' Both weapons he mentioned make appearances in many of his novels.Ĭamp is a personal friend and hunting companion of fellow Minnesota author Chuck Logan. 45 ACP Colt Gold Cup-I'd say The Once and Future King by T. When asked in 2018, 'What's your favorite book of all time?' by the New York Times, he responded, 'An impossible question.

He worked part-time at the Pioneer Press in 1989 and left the following year.Ĭamp is an avid fiction reader himself. For that work, he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. In 1985, during the Midwest farm crisis, he wrote a series titled 'Life on the Land: an American Farm Family,' which followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. That year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for a series of stories on Native American culture. In 1978, he moved to Minneapolis and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter in 1980 he became a daily columnist. įrom 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for The Miami Herald. He received a bachelor's degree in American history and literature and a master's in journalism, both from the University of Iowa. His mother's family was German and Lithuanian. Early life Ĭamp was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.

John Sandford, born John Roswell Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American New York Times best-selling author, novelist, a former journalist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.

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