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Gerald Vizenor
, 1934-
Gerald Vizenor was born in Minneapolis, but spent much of his childhood on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. Vizenor attended New York University for two years, transferring to the University of Minnesota where he earned his B.A. in 1960. His graduate studies include University of Minnesota and Harvard University. His career includes work for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, and the Minneapolis Tribune. Vizenor's teaching career includes professorship at Lake Forest University, Bemidji State College, University of Minnesota, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Vizenor incorporates the Trickster in many of his writings.
Awards and Honors
Fiction Collective/Illinois State University Prize, 1986
American Book award, 1988
Josephine Miles Award, PEN Oakland, 1990
Online resources by or about Gerald Vizenor:
A Chance of Survivance: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor, Conclusion
Author: The Alsop Review
Type: authorbio
Description: Part Two of the Jack Foley interview with Vizenor.
URL: http://www.alsopreview.com/foley/jfvizenor2.html
A Chance of Survivance: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor, Part One
Author: The Alsop Review
Type: authorbio
Description: Transcript of interview of Vizenor, by Jack Foley, orginiallybroadcast on Cover to Cover, KPFA-FM, 8/26/96.
URL: http://www.alsopreview.com/foley/jfvizenor.html
Gerald Vizenor
Author: Gerald Vizenor and Karen Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Biographical and bibliographical information about Vizenor.
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/vizenor/
On Teaching: Gerald Vizenor
Author: Mary Ellen Butler
Type: authorbio
Description: This article about Vizenor is from the 11/16/94 issue of The Berkeleyan.
URL: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1994/1116/vizenor.html
Books by Gerald Vizenor:
Vizenor, Gerald. Bearheart : The Heirship Chronicles
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes : First edition published as "Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart," 1978.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0816618518
Vizenor, Gerald. Chancers
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 159 p. ; p., 21 cm.
Series : American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, v. 36.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 080613266
Vizenor, Gerald. Crossbloods : Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 322 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Ojibwa Indians--Politics and government. Ojibwa Indians--Economic conditions. Ojibwa Indians--Social conditions.
Audience: Adult
Vizenor, Gerald. Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Description: 254 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 0816618526 (pbk.)
Vizenor, Gerald. Dead Voices : Natural Agonies in the New World
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 144 pages ; 20 cm.
Series : American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, vol. 2.
Audience: Adult
Vizenor, Gerald. Earthdivers : Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
Genre: Fiction
Description: Mixed bloods--Fiction.
Vizenor, Gerald. Fugitive poses : Native American Indian scenes of absence and presence
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 238 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0803246641
Vizenor, Gerald. Griever, an American Monkey King in China
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 240 pages ; 22 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0816618496
Vizenor, Gerald. The heirs of Columbus
Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press/Unversity Press of New England, 1991.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 189 p. : 23 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0819552410
Vizenor, Gerald. Hotline healers : an Almost Browne novel
Hanover, N.H. : Wesleyan University Press, 1997.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 172 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0819553042
Vizenor, Gerald. Interior landscapes: autobiographical myths and metaphors
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Genre: Autobiography
Description: 279 p. : 32 pages of plates ; 23 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0816618488
Vizenor, Gerald. Landfill meditation : crossblood stories
Hanover : Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 201 pages ; 22 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0819552437
Vizenor, Gerald. Manifest manners : postindian warriors of survivance
Hanover : University Press of New England, 1994.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: Social conditions.
Public opinion--North America. Ethnic identity. American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Audience: Adult
Vizenor, Gerald. Narrative chance: postmodern discourse on Native American Indian literatures
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico, 1989.
Genre: Essays
Description: 223 pages ; 25 cm. Discussion of works by Native authors including N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich and others. Essays.
Includes bibliographies and index. Indians in literature. Postmodernism--United States.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0826311172
Vizenor, Gerald. The people named the Chippewa : narrative histories
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Genre: Nonfiction / Biography
Description: 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Ojibwa Indians--History. Ojibwa Indians--Biography.
ISBN: 0816613060 (pbk.)
Vizenor, Gerald. Postindian conversations
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 189 p. ; 24 cm.
Co-author: A. Robert Lee
ISBN: 0803246668
Vizenor, Gerald. Shadow distance : A Gerald Vizenor reader
Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Description: 342 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Summary : Collected writings.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0819552771 (hc.) / 0819562815 (pbk.)
Vizenor, Gerald. Summer in the spring : Anishinaabe lyric poems and stories
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Genre: Folklore / Poems / Short Stories
Description: 165 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series : American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, vol. 6. Summary : Lyric poems and tales of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Chippewa) people, illustrated with tribal pictomyths, translations and annotations including a glossary of Anishinaabe words.
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0806125187
Vizenor, Gerald. Touchwood: a collection of Ojibway prose
St. Paul, MN : New Rivers Press, 1987.
Genre: Short Stories / Anthologies
Description: 180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series : Many Minnesotas Project Series, no. 3
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0898230918
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