Oliver La Farge
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Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge (19 December 1901 - 2 August 1963) was an American writer and anthropologist, perhaps best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy. He is the adoptive father of the folk singer and painter Peter La Farge.
La Farge's short stories were published in The New Yorker and Esquire magazines. His more notable works, fiction and non-fiction, focus on Native American culture.
Some of his works include:
- Laughing Boy (1929), novel, the basis for the 1934 motion picture of the same name.
- Sparks Fly Upward (1931), novel.
- All the Young Men (1935), collection of short stories.
- The Enemy Gods (1937), novel.
- Raw Material (1945), a memoir.
- Santa Eulalia: The Religion of a Cuchumatan Indian Town (1947), non-fiction.
- A Pictorial History of the American Indian (1956), non-fiction.
- Behind the Mountains (1956), non-fiction.
- A Pause in the Desert (1957), collection of short stories.
[edit] Personal life
La Farge was born in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1924 and a masters in 1929. He was the leader for some time of the Association on American Indian Affairs, a New York-based charitable organization and advocacy group.
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