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Poet and Novelist

Gordon Henry

February 19th 1999
 
 
   
 

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Poet and novelist Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota and an associate professor of English at Michigan State University. He has a master's degree from Michigan State University and a PhD from the University of North Dakota. His poetry and fiction have been included in numerous anthologies of American Indian literature, and his first novel, The Light People, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1994 and won an American Book Award in 1995.

"For me storytelling is important because it has the capacity to change, or turn, the consciousness of both the storyteller and the listener."
--Gordon Henry, in a North Dakota Quarterly interview.


 
 

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The Light People (2 excerpts) (Reading)
 

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