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LeAnne Howe
, 1951-
Born and educated in Oklahoma, Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. (Her family name is Tells and Kills.) Majoring in English at Oklahoma State University, Howe wanted to become a technical writer, but took up journalism instead. She is an author, playwright, filmmaker and scholar. She has lectured in Japan, Jordan, Romania, and Spain. She has been an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, and has currently been an associate professor in the Department of English and the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Howe's fiction tends to be highly autobiographical and has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals.
Awards and Honors
2006 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry from the Oklahoma Libraries Association and the Oklahoma Center for the Book
2002 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (for Shell Shaker)
2003 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year
Online resources by or about LeAnne Howe:
Betsy Love and the Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839
Author: LeAnne Howe
Type: etext
Description: An article Howe wrote for "Mississippi History Now" an online history journal sponsored by the Mississippi Historical Society (October 2005).
URL: http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature67/Betsy_Love_Property%20Act.htm
Choctalking on Other Realities
Author: LeAnne Howe
Type: etext
Description: Originally published in Cimarron Review, #121, October 1997. Published again in Grinnell Magazine, Winter, 1991. Also appears in Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community.
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/writing/choctalking.html
Here's Howe
Author: LeAnne Howe
Type: authorbio
Description: LeAnne Howe's home page on the Grinnell College web site.
URL: http://www.grinnell.edu/individuals/howe/
LeAnne Howe
Author: Elizabeth La Ronge
Type: authorbio
Description: This page is part of a series from Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color produced by the Department of English and Programs in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Included is an in-depth biography, selected bibliography and related links.
URL: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LeanneHowe.html
LeAnne Howe
Author: Karen Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Biographical and bibliographical information about LeAnn Howe. This site includes audio clips of Howe reading from one of her books, as well as access to electronic versions of some of her writing.
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/
LeAnne Howe: Native American Women Playwrights Archive
Author: Native American Women Playwrights Archive
Type: authorbio
Description: Bill Wortman's site at Miami University lists plays and other publications by LeAnne Howe, as part of a larger website honoring the works of Native American women playwrights.
URL: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/Howe.html
Books by LeAnne Howe:
Howe, LeAnne. Coyote Papers
Dallas, Tex. : Wowapi, 1985.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 26 p. ; 22 cm.
Howe, LeAnne. Evidence of Red
Cambridge, UK : Salt Publishing, 2005.
Description: 112 pages
ISBN: 1844710629
Howe, LeAnne. Shell Shaker
San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, 2001.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 227 p. ; 22 cm.
Choctaw Indians--Fiction Organized crime--Fiction. Casinos--Fiction. United StatesColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 This novel alternates between the 1738 story of a Choctaw family as it prepares for war against the English, and the 1990's story of their descendants' fight against the takeover of their tribe's casino.
ISBN: 1879960613
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