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INTERVIEW WITH CONOR ARCHER
Hello Everybody—E. R. Barr here. You know, when Michelangelo carved his great statues out of marble, he made it known that he was not creating anything. Instead, he saw a block of marble and revealed the form that was encased with the stone. Some authors do something similar with their characters. I do not create
How Conor Archer Came To Life
I first heard the whisperings of Conor Archer’s story when I went back home one summer in 1991 and visited Effigy Mounds National Monument on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River. It’s a great place to see what the Mound Builders, a vanished Native American people, constructed about a thousand years ago. The burial
The “Driftless”: Conor Archer’s Home
Conor Archer grew up in the big city of Chicago. Cool place, full of action and adventure. But his home is in Tinker’s Grove, Wisconsin, just about 250 miles away. I grew up in that area, and let me tell you, we thought it was the boonies. That means that we thought Saturday night in