time he lived in a house which is now the interpretive center of Blue Mounds State Park in Rock County, Minnesota. He attended Calvin College in Michigan. He had three children with his wife Maryanna Shorba Manfred: Freya Manfred, Frederick Manfred Jr., and Marya Manfred. Manfred was the writer-in-residence in the English Department at the University of South Dakota during the 1970s and 1980s. According to his daughter Freya Manfred, "Many of those who drank coffee with him, watched him, listened to him, learned from him, are now well-known national or regional writers: Pete Dexter, Michael Doane, Elly Welt, William Earls, Dan O'Brien, Linda Hasselstrom, Craig Volk, Bill Holm, John Calvin Rezmerski, and Joe and Nancy Paddock." Manfred died in Luverne, Minnesota in 1994, of a brain tumor, at the age of 82. In 2013, a Frisian translation was published of Manfred's autobiographical novel Green Earth, titled De Griene Ierde. Fiction The Golden Bowl (Manfred) (1944) Boy Almighty (1945) This is the Year (1947), Doubleday & Company The Chokecherry Tree (1948) The Primitive (1949), Doubleday & Company The Brother (1950) The Giant (1951) Lord Grizzly (1954), , about the ordeal of mountain man Hugh Glass Morning Red (1956) Riders of Judgment (1957), fictionalization of Wyoming's Johnson County War Conquering Horse (1959), Scarlet Plume (1964), King of Spades (1965), The Man Who Looked Like the Prince of Wales (1965) Eden Prairie (1968)The Manly-Hearted Woman (1976)Milk of Wolves (1976)Green Earth (1977)Sons of Adam (1980)Flowers of Desire (1989)No Fun On Sunday (1990)Of Lizards and Angels (1992) Note: There are also a handful of non-fiction titles, notably The Wind Blows Free, a memoir of the Dust Bowl, Conversations with Frederick Manfred, and Prime Fathers and Duke's Mixture, anthologies of FM's essays. References Sources "Frederick Manfred." Dictionary of Literary Biography 212:185-197. 1999. The Frederick Manfred Information Page Robert C. Wright, Frederick Manfred'' (Twayne's United States Authors series ; TUSAS 336) External links Frederick Manfred discusses Lord Grizzley and his other writings with his daughter Freya Manfred in this two-part program recorded in 1988: Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series #51 Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series #52 Author John Calvin Rezmerski reads from The Frederick Manfred Reader as part of the 1997 Minnesota Book Awards program in 1997: Northern Lights TV Series #376 1912 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American novelists Writers of fiction set in prehistoric times American male novelists American people of