Robert J. Conley (1940–2014)
Auteur de Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Robert J. Conley
Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (2015) 7 exemplaires
Three novels of the Real people: The Way of the Priests; The Dark Way; The White Path (1993) 7 exemplaires
Geronimo - Apache 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1983) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
The Golden Spurs: The Best of Western Short Fiction (Western Writers of America ) (1991) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Conley, Robert Jackson
- Date de naissance
- 1940-12-29
- Date de décès
- 2014-02-16
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Cherokee Nation
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Cushing, Oklahoma, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Sylva, North Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Witchita Falls, Texas, USA
- Études
- Midwestern University (BA | Drama and Art | 1966 | MA | English | 1968)
- Professions
- instructor (English)
director (Indian Studies, Eastern Montana College and others)
manager (Assistant Programs Manager, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
writer
author
novelist - Organisations
- Easterm Montana College
Cherokee Nation - Prix et distinctions
- Ozark Creative Writers (1961)
Oklahoma writers Hall of Fame (1966)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2007)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 58
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 787
- Popularité
- #32,341
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 158
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)