About Richard A. Kuffel

In September 2001, R. A. Kuffel completed a successful thirty-five-year career developing food products for a Fortune-500 food company in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Prior to joining the company in January 1967, the author obtained a bachelors degree in chemistry from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of North Dakota. Following two years of military service in the U. S. Army Chemical Corps, he was honorably discharged at the rank of captain and returned to his home state to join General Mills, Inc., where he spent his entire working career.

In 2007, he published his novel, The Dangled Illusion, a fictional memoir showing that you don’t have to be the CEO to be successful. With Crafting a Successful Career: 8 Principles for Winning in a Challenging World, he completes his statement about business and describes how every employee, regardless of title, can have a successful career. He’s now writing a family memoir, drawing largely from a stack of notes compiled by his late father.

The author lives in Plymouth, Minnesota, with his wife of forty-five years, Jo. The couple has two children and four grandchildren.