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Henricksen died on October 21, 2021, as a result of Alzheimer's disease and associated complications. He is survived by his wife, Victoria Henricksen, two of his children, Frederic Henricksen of Paris, France and Jessica Henricksen of New Orleans, Louisiana, his two step-daughters Elizabeth Day
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Victoria Day and returned to Minnesota to live in Duluth. There, what had previously been a secondary endeavor, writing fiction, became the primary one. His short stories appeared in numerous magazines, and in 2005 his story collection,
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as a "thoroughly enjoyable flight of fancy" and "a spiritual comedy," the novel, set partially in post-Katrina New
Orleans, combines magical realism and deconstruction in a manner at once imaginative and accessible. Also in 2008, Henricksen co-edited a volume in honor of a former mentor,
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from 1980 - 1986. While at Loyola, he received an NEH summer fellowship to
Princeton University and was a participant in the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University and in The School of Criticism and Theory at Northwestern University.
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Henricksen was married to Carolyn Van Deman from 1967 to 1988. They had two children, Jessica Suzanne Henricksen, born in 1969, and Teag Joseph Henricksen, born in 1976.
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Henricksen was born in Faribault, Minnesota on February 26, 1941, the only child of Janet Engstrom Henricksen of Wanamingo, Minnesota. He graduated from the
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Henricksen was married to Annick Ferré of Paris, France from 1962 to 1964. They had one child, Frederic Laurent Henricksen, in 1964.
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Olsen, Tom (7 March 2013). "After long journey, Duluth writer finds his niche as book publisher". Lake County News-Chronicle. McClatchey.
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Henricksen spoke on James Wright in libraries in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota. He and other contributors to
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Kralovec, and his six grandchildren, Paul and Thomas Henricksen, Freyja and Eostre Dommer, and Rebecca and Helen Kralovec.
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University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he and Wright first met.
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