Jim Klobuchar Bio

Jim Klobuchar was a columnist with the MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE for 30 years and today writes periodically for the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, which in 2003 nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize. He was voted the nation’s outstanding columnist in 1984 by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and in 1986 was a finalist in NASA’s Journalist in Space project, a program later canceled because of the Challenger accident. He is the author of 20 books, the latest being "Sixty Minutes with God," and "The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism," which he co-authored with his wife, Susan Wilkes. He also operates an adventure travel club, Jim Klobuchar's Adventures.