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Bill Holm named McKnight Distinguished Artist

May 12, 2008 - Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio. Minnesota writer Bill Holm is celebrating a little. Today the McKnight Foundation named him its 2008 Distinguished Artist.

Ask Bill Holm why he thinks he's getting the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and he says it's because he's stuck around. It's not what he planned when he was young, growing up in Minneota in southwestern Minnesota.

"My old essay, 'The Music of Failure,' begins with my longing when I was a kid of seeing the city limits of Minneota receding in the rear view mirror of a car driving east," Holm explained...



Read the full article at MPR online.