Verlyn Klinkenborg (born 1952 in Meeker, Colorado) is an American non-fiction author, academic, and former newspaper editor, known for his writings on rural America.
Klinkenborg attended the University of California, Berkeley before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Pomona College.
[4] Klinkenborg taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University while living in The Bronx in the early to mid-1980s.
[5] Klinkenborg's books include More Scenes from the Rural Life (Princeton Architectural Press), Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.
He has written a series of editorial opinions in The New York Times; these are generally literary meditations on rural farm life.