In conjunction with our special exhibit My AMERICA: Immigrant and
Refugee Writers Today, join us for an evening with bestselling
author DAVID TREUER, an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in
northern Minnesota. TREUER’s latest work, The Heartbeat of Wounded
Knee, is a sweeping history — and counter-narrative — of Native
AMERICAN LIFE FROM THE WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE TO THE PRESENT AND WAS A
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD.This program is part of
the Jeanne M. & John W. Rowe program series, a series of
conversations with leading contemporary writers about their latest
work and their thoughts on themes of identity, home, belonging and the
meaning of what it is to be American.
Bestselling author DAVID TREUER IS AN OJIBWE INDIAN FROM LEECH LAKE
RESERVATION IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA. He is the recipient of a Pushcart
Prize, two Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush
Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He divides his time between
his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a
Professor of English at USC.
The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and Holocaust survivor and
Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal court judge, David Treuer grew up on
Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended
Princeton University where he wrote two senior theses — one in
anthropology and one in creative writing — and where he worked with
Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in
1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his
PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in
1999. His third novel The Translation of Dr Apelles and a book of
criticism, Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual appeared in
2006. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named a Best Book of the
Year by the Washington Post, Time Out, and City Pages. He published
his first major work of nonfiction, Rez Life, in 2012. His next
novel, Prudence, was published by Riverhead Books in 2015. His essays
and stories have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, Esquire,
TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, Lucky Peach, The New York Times,
The LA Times, Orion, and Slate.com.
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