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Ron Hansen

Ron Hansen is the author of eight novels and three short story collections. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, and went on to the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.

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A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion will be released on July 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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San Jose Mercury News, May 9, 2012
...Gardens," by Ernest J. Finney (Southern Methodist University Press); "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," by Ron Hansen (Scribner); "Turn of Mind," by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly Press); "Lola, California," by Edie Meidav (Farrar, Straus and Giroux);...
Kankakee Daily Journal, March 26, 2012
...vision of an America that acts like Europe in energy policy, taxation, military power and social welfare institutions. Ron Hansen Bourbonnais Obama ruling I'm writing in reply to a recent editorial on "Obama Ruling." In my opinion, the president just...
The Advocate, March 25, 2012
...6222 Jones Creek Road. Members will discuss The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen.  Book Buffs will meet 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at Baker branch, 3501 Groom Road. Children ages 7-10 are invited to take turns...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2012
...struck out on that three-pointer. 5. Joyce Carol Oates on "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," by Ron HansenRon Hansen has written a mordantly funny, vividly compelling, and irresistibly readable chronicle of the twenties – a tabloid...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2012
...struck out on that three-pointer. 5. Joyce Carol Oates on "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," by Ron HansenRon Hansen has written a mordantly funny, vividly compelling, and irresistibly readable chronicle of the twenties – a tabloid portrait.“ Went...
CNN, January 20, 2012
..."The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Today I like reading Pete Dexter, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Ron Hansen and Richard Bissell. He only wrote three or four books but he was a pilot on the Mississippi, piloting a string of barges up and...
CNN, January 20, 2012
..."The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Today I like reading Pete Dexter, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Ron Hansen and Richard Bissell. He only wrote three or four books but he was a pilot on the Mississippi, piloting a string of barges up and...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2012
...struck out on that three-pointer. 5. Joyce Carol Oates on "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," by Ron HansenRon Hansen has written a mordantly funny, vividly compelling, and irresistibly readable chronicle of the twenties – a tabloid...
Huffington Post, February 28, 2012
...struck out on that three-pointer. 5. Joyce Carol Oates on "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion," by Ron HansenRon Hansen has written a mordantly funny, vividly compelling, and irresistibly readable chronicle of the twenties – a tabloid portrait.“ Went...
Individual.com, February 26, 2012
...of surgeon I strived to be -- technically skilled, caring and compassionate," said Parfitt. For Eva and Ron Hansen, Parfitt embodied those same qualities. "When Ron went in for a physical, his test (for prostate cancer) came back very high," said Eva,...
Individual.com, February 26, 2012
...of surgeon I strived to be -- technically skilled, caring and compassionate," said Parfitt. For Eva and Ron Hansen, Parfitt embodied those same qualities. "When Ron went in for a physical, his test (for prostate cancer) came back very high," said Eva,...
Fayetteville Observer, February 25, 2012
...of surgeon I strived to be - technically skilled, caring and compassionate," said Parfitt. For Eva and Ron Hansen, Parfitt embodied those same qualities. "When Ron went in for a physical, his test (for prostate cancer) came back very high," said Eva,...
Medicexchange.com, February 22, 2012
...With the retirement of NDS Surgical Imaging's veteran CTO, Ron Hansen, the Company has appointed Dr. Peter M. Steven to the role of Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Steven was instrumental in the design and development of the first diagnostic LCD...
PR-USA.net, February 19, 2012
...into go! so we've had to rebuild our internal systems and procedures," says President & CEO Ron Hansen, "and with these changes we will can focus on rebranding our core business while maintaining our marketing relationship with Go! It's also our plan to...