Joseph Bruchac
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Joseph Bruchac is widely known as a children's author, short-story writer, and novelist who works with traditional Native American tales and has described his work as creating a bridge between Native American oral traditions and contemporary written literature.
Joseph Bruchac grew up in the Adirondack Mountain region of New York State. His father's family was of Slovak descent, but his mother was from a mixed Abenaki and European background. Bruchac was especially close to his maternal grandfather, a dark-skinned man whom Bruchac has described...
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