Ken Kuhlken is a compulsive storyteller who drifted from his home in the southwest to the University of Iowa to study in its Writers’ Workshop. When he finished with that place and soon published a story in ESQUIRE, he believed he was golden. But the world proved to be a rougher arena than he’d foreseen, and he began teaching writing at colleges. He drifted through eight of them, and at last founded one. Meantime, he fathered three amazing children, did three years as a newspaper columnist, and never stopped writing stories and novels.