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Dan Jorgensen

Born: May 3, 1947, Rochester, Minn.

Occupation: Journalist, novelist

Nationality: American

Period: 1967-

Dan Jorgensen(May 3, 1947 - ) is an American writer who started his career as a sportswriter at the Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader in 1967 and wrote his first novel, Killer Blizzard while serving as a news editor and associate director of public affairs at Colorado State University in 1977. Killer Blizzard has been continuously in print since 1977. His historical novel, And The Wind Whispered (2015), set in 1894 in the southern Black Hills, was a Colorado Humanities winner for Best Historical Fiction in 2016.

Jorgensen grew up on a South Dakota farm and attended a one-room country school in the farming region known as Spring Valley. After graduation from Parker (SD) High School, he attended South Dakota State University where he started his writing career by working on the SDSU Collegian as a sportswriter. His professional career began at age 20 at the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, first as a paid intern in all areas of the newspaper and then as a sportswriter while continuing his studies at SDSU, earning his BA in Journalism in 1969.