La Farge, Oliver [Hazard Perry]
La Farge, Oliver [Hazard Perry]( 1901–63),ethnologist and author, after graduation from Harvard (1924) conducted archaeological investigations in Arizona, Mexico, and Guatemala, and with Frans Blom wrote Tribes and Temples (2 vols., 1925, 1927). Laughing Boy (1929, Pulitzer Prize) is a novel of life among the Navajo Indians, and his later novels include Sparks Fly Upward (1931), set in Central America; Long Pennant (1933), a story of 19th-century New England seamen; The Enemy Gods (1937), about Navajo inability to adapt to white civilization; and The Copper Pot (1942), about a New England painter in New Orleans. All the Young Men (1935) and A Pause in the Desert (1957) collect stories. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (1940) surveys the history and conditions of American Indians, and other works of nonfiction include Behind the Mountains (1956), sketches of New Mexico village life...
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