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Join us!
Join us at the Marion Public Library as we welcome local author Dale Kueter.
Dale will be sharing about his years working at The Gazette and the books that he has written. He will have his books available for purchase and will sign books after the event.
About Dale Kueter:
DALE KUETER wrote for Iowa newspapers for 41 years, 34 at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids. He attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1958. He served six years in the Iowa Army National Guard.
Kueter grew up on a farm near Bellevue, Iowa. After college he married Helen Hayes. They are parents of five daughters and have 14 grandchildren. He has published a children’s book, Hide the Daddy, two full-length, non-fiction books, Vietnam Sons and The Smell of the Soil, and two historical novels, Motel Sepia and Ma Bremer's Boys.
He is a proponent of family story writing as a means of sustaining family history. That is the essence of his book, The Smell of the Soil.
Kueter likes to fish, travel and is a long-suffering fan of the Chicago White Sox. He and his wife live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.