P. F. Kluge

Paul Frederick Kluge, commonly known as P. F. Kluge is a novelist living in Gambier, Ohio. Kluge was born in 1942 in New Jersey, graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier in 1964 and teaches Creative Writing there now. He served in the Peace Corps from 1967-69 in Micronesia.

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He is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Eddie and the Cruisers, The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia, Biggest Elvis (1997), Seasons for War, MacArthur's Ghost, The Day I Die: A Novel of Suspense, and his most recent, Final Exam (2005).

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Kluge's popular non-fiction work, Alma Mater: A College Homecoming chronicles Kluge's time as a student and teacher at Kenyon College. This work vividly describes the struggles a liberal arts colleges goes through changing times.

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Two of Kluge's works have been made into films, Eddie and the Cruisers, based on his novel of the same name, and Dog Day Afternoon, written with Thomas Moore as a Life article.

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Kenyon College: Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college founded in Gambier, Ohio in 1824, by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. Originally an all-male institution, Kenyon became co-educational in 1969. Kenyon remains loosely affliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Kenyon Colle...

Peace Corps: The Peace Corps is an independent U.S. federal agency designed to promote mutual understanding between Americans and the outside world. Established by executive order in 1961 and approved by Congress as a permanent agency within the State Department later that year, the program was an outgrowth of t...