Graduated from the University in 1950; one of
fourty semi finalists in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following
the Challenger tragedy); candidate from Minnesota; in 1986 working for the
Minneapolis Star-Tribune; awarded the Award of Excellence by the School of
Journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1995 und has twice been nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism; hobbies: mountaineering; retired in 1995,
but still writing books and planning adventures. He is the father of U.S.
Senator Amy Klobuchar. |