LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson ...

Kristofferson attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship; that's where he first tried to launch his music career, signing with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. After college ...

Kris Kristofferson (left), Marty Dread (center ... Born in Texas, Kristofferson earned a Rhodes scholarship to study literature at Oxford, where he became enamored with the prose of visionary ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... writing and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship where he earned a Masters in English ...