Is This the Third Wave of Native American Fiction?
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There’s talk of a surge in Native American crime fiction in the last decade or two, meaning novels by, not just about, Native Americans. Earlier writers like Tony Hillerman, James Doss and Aimee and David Thurlo wrote mysteries set in native cultures, but they were outsiders. James Doss worked as an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory while writing seventeen mysteries about the Ute rancher-detective Charlie Moon. Aimee Thurlo was born in Cuba and married co-writer David Thurlo who had spent time on the Navajo reservation as a kid but wasn’t Navajo. Hillerman wasn’t either, though he received the Navajo tribe’s Friend of the Dine Award.
Is This the Third Wave of Native American Fiction?
Is This the Third Wave of Native American…
Is This the Third Wave of Native American Fiction?
There’s talk of a surge in Native American crime fiction in the last decade or two, meaning novels by, not just about, Native Americans. Earlier writers like Tony Hillerman, James Doss and Aimee and David Thurlo wrote mysteries set in native cultures, but they were outsiders. James Doss worked as an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory while writing seventeen mysteries about the Ute rancher-detective Charlie Moon. Aimee Thurlo was born in Cuba and married co-writer David Thurlo who had spent time on the Navajo reservation as a kid but wasn’t Navajo. Hillerman wasn’t either, though he received the Navajo tribe’s Friend of the Dine Award.