Upcoming Author Talk at KBPV with Fred Stenson

Fred Stenson signing copies of The Great Karoo at 2008 Author Talk
C. Davis photo

The Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village (KBPV) is very pleased and excited to announce that it will be hosted another of its author talks, to take place at the KBPV the evening of Tuesday, November 4 starting at 7:30 pm.  It will feature the well known and highly respected author Fred Stenson. Stenson was raised in the Yarrow and Twin Butte districts south of Pincher Creek.  He will be reading from his latest historical fiction book entitled 'Who by Fire', "a passionate novel about two generations of a family caught in the path of progress", which just came out in late September.  Other Fred Stenson books of note: The Trade, Lightning and The Great Karoo.  The Great Karoo was the subject of an author talk at KBPV in 2008 when it was released.

Stenson's latest

Fred Stenson biography:

Fred Stenson was born in 1951 and grew up on a mixed farm south of Pincher Creek and east of Twin Butte. His parents were Ted and Ida Stenson. He has two sisters, Marie Gray and Lois Johnston. Lois lives on the Stenson family farm today. Fred is the author of eighteen books: six of them novels, three short story collections, and the remainder, non-fiction. His 2014 novel Who By Fire is set on a farm not unlike his own home place, but the characters are fictional.

Stenson’s novel The Trade, written in the 1980s and ‘90s, won three Alberta awards: the City of Edmonton Book Prize, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Novel Award, and the inaugural Grant MacEwan Author's Prize. Lightning, his 2005 novel about Alberta’s open range ranch era, won the Grant MacEwan Author's Prize in 2005. The Great Karoo, his 2008 novel, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction.

For the last fifteen years, Fred has been the director of the Wired Writing Studio at The Banff Centre. For about the same length of time, he has written a wit column in the magazine Alberta Views.

Stenson has two adult children, Kate and Ted Stenson. He and his wife Pamela Banting live in Cochrane, Alberta.

For more information about this event call KBPV at 403-627-3684.