Gerald Vizenor (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Gerald Vizenor is often recognized as the most innovative writer of Native American fiction ever to put pen to paper. Born to Clement William Vizenor and LaVerne Lydia Peterson Vizenor, he was raised in Minneapolis from the age of two primarily by his father’s family (originally from the White Earth Reservation), following the unsolved murder of his father. After weathering a less than ideal childhood, tempered by Anishinabe trickster tales, Vizenor joined the National Guard at fifteen and the Army at eighteen.
Stationed in Japan for several important formative years, he...
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