Bill Kraft

Bill Kraft, the youngest of eleven children, is a native of Strasburg, North Dakota, and an alumnus of St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He taught high school English in Pipestone, Minnesota and St. Cloud Cathedral High School and spent ten years with the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He is an aficionado of authors Ray Bradbury, Thomas Wolfe and Washington Irving. In 2012 he fulfilled a life-long dream with a pilgrimage to the...See more

Bill Kraft, the youngest of eleven children, is a native of Strasburg, North Dakota, and an alumnus of St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He taught high school English in Pipestone, Minnesota and St. Cloud Cathedral High School and spent ten years with the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He is an aficionado of authors Ray Bradbury, Thomas Wolfe and Washington Irving. In 2012 he fulfilled a life-long dream with a pilgrimage to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial and gravesite in Asheville, North Carolina. That pilgrimage was preceded by another in 2008 to Sleepy Hollow, New York, and the former Washington Irving residence. Meeting Ray Bradbury at St. Cloud State University in 2000 remains a milestone event. Bill has a special passion for the music of Franz Schubert and Ralph Vaughan Williams. A bit of a cinephile, too, he reveres Lawrence of Arabia as the Mount Rushmore of movies. He and his wife live in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. See less