Background
Hansen was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and lived in Illinois from the age of 10 to 25.
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The Morning Door
(Jason Audley has had a colorful past (see author Craig J....)
Jason Audley has had a colorful past (see author Craig J. Hansen's other Jason Audley titles, The Skeleton Train and Winter Lake). Once a whimsical drifter, we find Jason now with a job, a girlfriend, and a faithful dog. But, things unravel with a bicycle ride, his sister's Africa trip, and a would-be spirit guide. As in the other Jason Audley novels, the reader encounters quirky characters, misadventure, loss and redemption, all set in the rolling countryside of Northwest Wisconsin...
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The Skeleton Train
(Combining adventure, poignancy, and wry humor, The Skelet...)
Combining adventure, poignancy, and wry humor, The Skeleton Train tells the story of Jason Audley, a young man on the margins. Appearing alienated, even troubled, Jason's internal life is rich. He's resourceful, forgiving, and sometimes daring. Jason narrates his wild quest for a missing girl, a quest that brings him into the quirky and dangerous world of freight train riders, and a quest that teaches him much about himself, friendship, and the consequences of choices.
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Winter Lake
(Winter Lake continues the story of Jason Audley, introduc...)
Winter Lake continues the story of Jason Audley, introduced in the novel The Skeleton Train. It is now seven years later and we find Jason wandering northern Wisconsin as the drummer in the woeful Chess Chalmers Band. His journey eventually takes him to Winter Lake and adventure, where his aimlessness doesn't work, where others grow to depend on him, and where he finds that he must confront his past to reveal his future.
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Craig Hansen
Edit ProfileEducation
In 1993 he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in English at the University of Minnesota with a focus on Technical Communication.
Career
He earned a Bachelor in Political Science (with a minor in English and Anthropology) in 1976, and an Master of Arts in English in 1980. Both from the University of Illinois. During the years between his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, he worked in the computer industry in a variety of technical and managerial positions.
Hansen has published several academic articles and a few short stories, but The Skeleton Train is his first novel.
Published in 2010 by Sky Blue Waters Press, The Skeleton Train tells the story of Jason Audley. What many have referred to as a modern day Huckleberry Finn.
Jason narrates a story that begins when he is fourteen in an industrial Illinois town. The story includes his closest friend, Davey, and a young woman they encounter while hopping freight trains called The Pheadra.
Hansen"s second novel, Winter Lake, published in 2012, is a sequel to The Skeleton Train and picks up Jason"s life in northern Wisconsin seven years later.
He continues to narrate the story as a drummer in a band with his trademark wit and wry sense of humor. Hansen"s third novel, The Morning Door, published in 2014, is the third in the Jason Audley series, and continues Jason"s story as an adult in Northwest Wisconsin. Hansen is also the co-author of Nonacademic Writing: Social Theory and Technology, published in 1995 by Lawrence Erlbaum.
Personal life
He"s Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Technical Communication at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Hansen is a musician who devotes equal time to writing and music, and plays lead guitar (but is not an original member) for the More-Tishans, a local band in Stillwater, Minnesota that had the one-hit-wonder, (I"ve got) Nowhere to Run, in 1966. He also plays guitar for the group Cattail Moon Band.
He"s played the guitar in many bands since the age of fourteen, and can also play the mandolin and accordion.
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The Skeleton Train
(Combining adventure, poignancy, and wry humor, The Skelet...)
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Winter Lake
(Winter Lake continues the story of Jason Audley, introduc...)
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The Morning Door
(Jason Audley has had a colorful past (see author Craig J....)
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The Skeleton Train
