He was an Oscar-nominated actor, a Rhodes scholar, and an Army veteran who turned down a teaching position at West Point. Kristofferson left the military and moved to Nashville in the mid-‘60s.

A hard-drinking singer-songwriter with an outlaw spirit, Kris Kristofferson transformed the country music scene in the 1970s by bringing lyrical sophistication, and a "rarely heard candour and ...

25 Years Ago, Legendary Songwriter Kris Kristofferson Taught a Powerful Lesson About Success This creative success strategy worked for Willie Nelson and Muhammad Ali, and it can work for you, too.

Now there was a Renaissance man. Compared to Kris Kristofferson, his classmates were all underachievers. Yet after that, he threw away an appointment to teach English at West Point.

Kris Kristofferson, known both as a country music singer-songwriter and a film star, died on September 28 at his home in Maui, Hawaii. The cause of his death has not been disclosed. He was 88. As ...

He turned down an appointment to teach literature at West Point to take a chance at songwriting. Kristofferson went to Nashville in the '60s, and his first job in the music industry was working as ...

He turned down an appointment to teach literature at West Point to take a chance at songwriting. Kristofferson went to Nashville in the '60s, and his first job in the music industry was working as a ...

If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying US Army ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a ...

Appreciation: Music great Kris Kristofferson, dead at 88: ‘I was a janitor for a couple of years.’ A music star who became a movie star, Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, a U.S. Army ...