Oliver Lafarge
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Oliver Lafarge (1901-1963) was an American writer and anthropologist.
Today he is best known for his novel Laughing Boy, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1930. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction.
LaFarge, a New Englander of French/Naragansett descent, was a trained anthropologist who discovered two previously unknown languages while on scientific expeditions to Central America and the American Southwest. He spent most of his adult life championing Indian rights and was president of the Association on American Indian Affairs for several years. His published output included several scientific papers and non-fiction books, as well as several novels and a column for the Santa Fe newspaper The New Mexican, some of which were released in book form as "The Man With the Calabash Pipe."
LaFarge had at least three children by his first wife, heiress Wanden Matthews: a son, Oliver Albee LaFarge, and a daughter, Povy, and another son, Pen LaFarge. After his parents divorced in 1935, Oliver Albee changed his name to Peter and became a Greenwich Village folksinger with five Folkways albums.
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- Tribes and Temples (with Frans Bloom) 1926-27
- Laughing Boy, 1929
- The Year Bearer's People (with Douglas Byers) 1931
- Introduction to American Indian Art (with John Sloan) 1931
- Sparks Fly Upward, 1931
- Long Pennant, 1933
- All the Young Men, 1935
- The Enemy Gods, 1937
- An Alphabet for Writing the Navajo Language, 1940
- The Changing Indian (editor) 1942
- The Copper Pot, 1942
- War Below Zero (with Corey Ford and Bernt Balchen) 1944
- Raw Material, 1945
- Santa Eulalia, 1947
- The Eagle in the Egg, 1949
- Cochise of Arizona, 1953
- The Mother Ditch, 1954
- A Pictorial History of the American Indian, 1956
- Behind the Mountains, 1956
- A Pause in the Desert, 1957
- Santa Fe: The Autobiography of a Southwestern Town (with Arthur N. Morgan) 1959
- The Door in the Wall, 1965
- The Man With the Calabash Pipe (edited by Winfield Townley Scott) 1966
