State AG Stunned By Win—an Award for a Nonfiction Book He Wrote About Work
John Kroger is used to being successful in life. But the Oregon attorney general said he was stunned last night to hear a presenter start reading a paragraph from a nonfiction book he’d authored, Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battle Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves.
That was when he first realized he was about to win a top honor for creative nonfiction in the annual Oregon Book Awards, reports the Statesman Journal. The book, which he wrote while teaching at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, focuses on work he did between 2003 and 2008, while working as a federal prosecutor. He was elected state attorney general in late 2008.
Lacking a prepared speech, Kroger said he “loved being a lawyer and a public servant, but what I really wanted to be is a writer,” and thanked his wife and son for supporting his passion, reports the Oregonian.
