New Book from Richard J. Cronborg

About the Author
Richard Cronborg spent thirty-three years as a Local #150 union heavy-equipment operator, in the Chicagoland area. He has had many blue collar jobs in his lifetime: Pizza delivery driver, warehouseman, painter, bartender, flower delivery man, clothing salesman, employment agency “headhunter”, and a variety of other menial jobs in his colorful career. His stories and poems are mainly autobiographical, but many are about other people he has met or imagined. Cronborg is now retired, and resides in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife, Debbie. He has a B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University. He is a well-known Chicago artist who has been featured in Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. Cronborg has also appeared in a variety of major network television shows in the Chicagoland area. “Blue Collar Journal” is his fourth book. It is a diary of a man who has seen life from many angles. Sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, the book takes the reader to many places. Cronborg is first and foremost a story teller. He loves to look at contemporary American life as it relates to the world. Much of what he has internalized as a working man has affected his verse. Cronborg continues to ponder his life and the world at large from a philosophical and sociological point of view.