Sad news. Mystery author Ken Kuhlken passed away yesterday (July 29, 2024) at the age of 79, after a year-long battle with cancer. Ken was a wonderful, kind, supportive, and general all-around nice guy.
Ken's stories appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies. His novels include Midheaven, finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first fiction book, and the Hickey family mysteries: The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles; The Good Know Nothing; The Venus Deal; The Loud Adios, Private Eye Writers of America Press Best First PI Novel; The Angel Gang; The Do-Re-Mi, finalist for the Shamus Best Novel Award; The Vagabond Virgins; The Very Least; and The Answer to Everything.
His five-book saga For America, together is a long novel and an incantation, a work of magic created to postpone the end of the world for at least a thousand years.
His daughter related on FB that years ago her father "randomly exclaimed that he wanted his tombstone to read only .. Ken Kuhlken-A Funny Guy.. He was that.
Rest in Peace, Ken.
2 comments:
Very sad. I remember very well with pleasure his visits to your salons with Alan Russell.
Ken was a class act all the way.
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