Leif Enger was born in 1961 in Osakis, Minnesota. He met his wife while studying English at Moorhead State University. Before writing his debut novel Peace Like a River, Enger was a writer and producer for Minnesota Public Radio program “Mainstreet Radio” for sixteen years. In the early 1990s, Enger and his brother Lin co-wrote and published several mystery novels centered on a retired baseball. The books were published under the pseudonym L.L. Enger.
Enger published Peace Like a River, his first novel, in 2001. The book won numerous novels, including a spot in Time Magazine’s top five novels of the year. Enger's second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, also garnered several...
