Robert J. Conley (1940–2014)
Autore di Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Sull'Autore
Robert J. Conley was born in 1940 in Cushing Oklahoma. He is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. He is noted for depictions of precontact and historical Cherokee figures. He is known for a series mostra altro of books called the Real People Series. The sixth of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Robert J. Conley
Opere correlate
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Conley, Robert Jackson
- Data di nascita
- 1940-12-29
- Data di morte
- 2014-02-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Cherokee Nation
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Cushing, Oklahoma, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Sylva, North Carolina, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Witchita Falls, Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- Midwestern University (BA | Drama and Art | 1966 | MA | English | 1968)
- Attività lavorative
- instructor (English)
director (Indian Studies, Eastern Montana College and others)
manager (Assistant Programs Manager, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
writer
author
novelist - Organizzazioni
- Easterm Montana College
Cherokee Nation - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Ozark Creative Writers (1961)
Oklahoma writers Hall of Fame (1966)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2007)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 58
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 800
- Popolarità
- #31,872
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 158
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
Some stories were written in the first person, which made it easy to believe it was Conley himself that the story was about--until you notice the year, or until you read in his acceptance speech that "...writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, dancers, bank robbers, boxers...the writer is the most fortunate of the bunch, for he can write himself into any or all of these characters."
Otherwise, the four included speeches were nothing special.… (altro)