BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Rick Shefchik was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, graduated from Dartmouth College and began his journalism career at the Duluth News-Tribune. He then spent 26 years at the St. Paul Pioneer Press as a media critic, feature writer/columnist, enterprise reporter and sportswriter.
He left the Pioneer Press in December 2006 to pursue a career as a novelist and freelance writer.
“Amen Corner” was published in March 2007 by Poisoned Pen Press, and is the first in a series of sports-related thrillers featuring ex-Minneapolis police detective Sam Skarda. The second, "Green Monster," was published in August 2008. The third, "Frozen Tundra," will be published June 1, 2010, by North Star Press.
He lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with his wife, Barbara, daughter Claire and son David. He's a lifelong golfer and plays guitar with Yesterday’s News, an oldies band he formed with some of his fellow journalists.
- Photo by Barbara Lundgren
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