Robert J. Conley (1940–2014)
Auteur van Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Three novels of the Real people: The Way of the Priests; The Dark Way; The White Path (1993) 7 exemplaren
Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (2015) 7 exemplaren
Geronimo - Apache 1 exemplaar
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Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Medewerker — 70 exemplaren
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Medewerker — 70 exemplaren
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
The Golden Spurs: The Best of Western Short Fiction (Western Writers of America ) (1991) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Conley, Robert Jackson
- Geboortedatum
- 1940-12-29
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2014-02-16
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Cherokee Nation
USA - Geboorteplaats
- Cushing, Oklahoma, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sylva, North Carolina, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Witchita Falls, Texas, USA
- Opleiding
- Midwestern University (BA | Drama and Art | 1966 | MA | English | 1968)
- Beroepen
- instructor (English)
director (Indian Studies, Eastern Montana College and others)
manager (Assistant Programs Manager, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
writer
author
novelist - Organisaties
- Easterm Montana College
Cherokee Nation - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Ozark Creative Writers (1961)
Oklahoma writers Hall of Fame (1966)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2007)
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- #32,170
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- 3.5
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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.… (meer)