Kevin Kling

Kling grew up in Osseo, Minnesota, and graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. He began his career in the Twin Cities during the 1990s with two plays that wrote: 21A and Fear and Loving in Minneapolis.{{cite web | title = Kevin Kling Returns | publisher = National Public Radio | date = January 2002 | url = https://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/jan/kling/020104.kling.html | access-date = September 17, 2015}}

In 1993, Kling won the Whiting Award for drama.{{cite web | title = Kevin Kling 1993 Whiting Award | publisher =Whiting Award Foundation | url = http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/kevin-kling#/ | access-date = September 17, 2015}} In 2009, he won the A. P. Anderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Literature and the Arts in Minnesota.{{cite news |date=May 24, 2009 |title=Storyteller receives A.P. Anderson Award |url=http://www.republican-eagle.com/content/storyteller-receives-ap-anderson-award |access-date=September 17, 2015 |newspaper=Redwing Republican Eagle}}

Kling has also made regular storytelling contributions to NPR’s All Things Considered. He has released several CD collections, including a boxed set, Collected Stories. His first published book of short stories was The Dog Says How followed by four more titles.

Kling has not been slowed in his work by a birth defect that shriveled his left arm and a motorcycle accident that completely paralyzed his right arm.

• 21A
• Fear and Loving in Minneapolis
• Home and Away
• Lloyd's Prayer
• The Education of Walter Kauffman
• The Seven Dwarfs
• Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
• Invisible Fences (with Gaelynn Lea)
• The Ice Fishing Play

• The Dog Says How, Borealis Books, 2007
• Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn, Borealis Books, 2009
• Big Little Brother, Borealis Books, 2011
• Big Little Mother, Borealis Books, 2013
• On Stage with Kevin Kling, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013

• 1994 Home and Away
• 2001 Stories Off the Shallow End
• 2003 Wonderlure
• 2004 A Fool's Paradise
• 2004 Collected Stories
• 2007 Alive
• 2012 State Fair
• 2014 Come & Get It

• 1986 Heideman Best Short Play Award for 21A
• 1993 Whiting Award
• 2009 A.P. Anderson Award
• 2010 Storytelling World Storytelling Collection, for "The Dog Says How" Flora Joy. "The 2010 Storytelling World Resource Awards." http://storytellingworld.com/2010/ Retrieved 14 July 2017.
• 2012 National Storytelling Network's Circle of Excellence Award National Storytelling Network. "Circle of Excellence Award Recipients." http://storynet.org/oracle/circleofexcellence.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915193319/http://www.storynet.org/oracle/circleofexcellence.html |date=2011-09-15 }} Retrieved 14 July 2017.

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• [http://www.kevinkling.com Official website]
• [https://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/jan/kling/020104.kling.html "The Return of Kevin Kling: A Story of Near-Death and Recovery"] - All Things Considered
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120321023734/http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2012/losses-and-laughter/ The Losses and the Laughter We Grow Into with Kevin Kling - On Being]
• [http://www.popmatters.com/review/klingkevin-east/ Popmatters: Stories off the Shallow End]
• [https://www.twincities.com/2015/02/25/kevin-kling-answers-9-questions-and-yes-don-knotts-would-play-him/ Kevin Kling answers 9 questions, and, yes, Don Knotts would play him] - Interview with the Twin Cities Pioneer Press newspaper{{Cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2015/02/25/kevin-kling-answers-9-questions-and-yes-don-knotts-would-play-him/|title=Kevin Kling answers 9 questions, and, yes, Don Knotts would play him|last=Press|first=Chris Hewitt {{!}} Pioneer|date=2015-02-25|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-16}}

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