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Robert Treuer

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: January 31, 1926, Vienna, Austria

Robert Treuer. Author and columnist. Treuer fled the Holocaust in 1938. He found refuge in London at an encampment for children evacuated from the Spanish Civil War and in the Quaker Newtown School in Waterford, Ireland, before being reunited with his parents and coming to the United States. He served in the U.S. Army overseas in World War II, and he attended Antioch College, 1942-3, and Yale University, 1944-45. B.A., Antioch College, 1949; B.S. Bemidji State University, 1960. A union newspaper editor and activist in Wisconsin, he came to live in northern Minnesota in 1958. He taught English at Cass Lake high school, 1961-63, and became a Native American tribal manager and organizer in Minnesota, 1963-68. He worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington DC,as a grant and personnel manager, 1968-73, and the United States Departement of Health, Education and Welfare as a grant and contract manager, 1973-79. Currently a writer and tree farmer in Minnesota. His short stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Yankee, the Eagle, and other periodicals. More than six hundred of his newspaper columns, as well as book reviews and articles, have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun, the Milwaukee Journal, the Washingtonian, and numerous other publications.

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Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • Contemporary Authors. Vol. 69-70. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.
  • Who's Who in the Midwest, 1994-95. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who Inc., 1994.
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