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Vincent L. Mendoza
, 1947-
Vincent Mendoza was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1947, the son of a Creek mother and a Mexican father. He is a Vietnam War veteran, and his autobiographical first book Son of Two Bloods, won the North American Indian Prose Award in 1994. Currently he lives in McAlester, Oklahoma, where he works as a freelance writer.
Awards and Honors
North American Indian Prose Award, 1994
Books by Vincent L. Mendoza:
Mendoza, Vincent L.. Son of Two Bloods
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Genre: Autobiography
Description: 192 p. : ill., photos ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Autobiographical account of growing up in a Creek and Mexican family; winner of the 1994 North American Indian Prose award.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0-8032-3188-1
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