Linda Hogan (writer)

Linda Hogan (writer)

Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.

Early life

Hogan's ancestry is Chickasaw, but she has written that her family's military background meant that she grew up in a peripatetic way that denied her any sense of belonging to an individual Native community, mostly living in Colorado and Oklahoma.

She was the first member of her family to go to school, and not only did well there but went on to receive her MA from the University of Colorado in 1978. She began writing professionally while working in a career for orthopedically handicapped children.

Published work

Hogan has published works in many different backgrounds and forms. Her concentration is on environmental themes (she has acted as a consultant in bringing together Native tribal representatives and environmental campaigners) and feminist themes, particularly allying them to her Native ancestry. All of her work, whether fiction or non-fiction, displays a holistic understanding of the world.

Hogan has also written historical novels that focus on the historical wrongs done to both Native Americans and the American landscape during the colonisation of North America.

Hogan has also been employed as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, publishing essays on Native American literature.

Awards & recognition

*Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, 2007
*Writer of the Year (Creative Prose), Wordcraft Circle Award, 2002
*Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, 1998
*Colorado Book Award, 1996
*Lannan Award, 1994
*Colorado Book Award, 1993
*Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction, 1991
*Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1990.
*American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1986
*Stand magazine Fiction Award, 1983
*Five Civilized Tribes Play Writing Award, 1980

Bibliography

* "Rounding the Human Corners: Poems" (2008)
* "People of the Whale: A Novel" (2008)
* "The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir" (2001)
* "The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women and the Green World" (2000)
* "Power" (1998)
* "Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World" (1995)
* "Solar Storms" (1995)
* "Book of Medicines" (1993)
* "Red Clay: Poems and Stories" (1991)
* "Mean Spirit" (1990)
* "Savings: Poems" (1988)
* "Seeing Through the Sun" (1985)
* "Eclipse" (1983)
* "Daughters, I Love You" (1981)
* "A Piece of Moon" (1981)
* "Calling Myself Home" (1978)

ee also

*List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
*Native American Renaissance
*Native American Studies

External links

* [http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A40 Very complete bibliography and links to other online resources]
* [http://www.unm.edu/~wrtgsw/hogan.html Page containing an audio clip of Hogan reading]
* [http://www.writersontheedge.org/hogan.html Profile at "Writers on the Edge"]


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