North Dakota: Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, MN, but he grew up on a farm nearby in Wyndmere, ND, and later attended the University of North Dakota. Working as a reporter in North Dakota, Klosterman started writing his essays on American popular culture, compiled in Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century.