Adrian C. Louis

Adrian C. Louis (April 24, 1946 – September 9, 2018)[1] was an American author. Hailing from Nevada, Louis was a member of Lovelock Paiute tribe who lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He has taught at Oglala Lakota College.

His novel Skins (1995) discusses reservation life and issues such as poverty, alcoholism, and social problems and was the basis for the 2002 film, Skins. He also published books of poetry and a collection of short stories, Wild Indians and Other Creatures (1996). His work was noted for its realism.

He died on September 9, 2018.[1]

Biography

Born in northern Nevada in 1946, Louis was the eldest of twelve children. Of mixed heritage, Louis was of Lovelock Paiute descent. He moved from Nevada to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation and graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor's and MA in Creative Writing. Louis was also a former journalist and along with being editor of four tribal newspapers, he was the managing editor of Indian Country Today and a co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association.

Louis has ten published books of poetry and two novels. His poetry and fiction have garnered him much recognition and awards. His work has been praised by some of the other notable modern Native American writers, including Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko. In 1999, he was added to the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame.[2]

In 2001 he was awarded the Writer of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and the Cohen Award for best published poem in Ploughshares. He is also the recipient of the Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the South Dakota Arts Council, the Nebraska Arts Council, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Foundation.

Louis taught English at Pine Ridge's Oglala Lakota College from 1984–1997; from 1999–2014, he taught in the Minnesota State University systems.[3]

Bibliography

Poetry
  • The Indian Cheap Wine Seance (1974, Grey Flannel Press)
  • Muted War Drums (1977, Blue Cloud Quarterly)
  • Sweets for the Dancing Bears (1979, Blue Cloud Quarterly)
  • Fire Water World (1989, West End Press)
  • Among the Dog Eaters (1992, West End Press)
  • Blood Thirsty Savages] (1994, Time Being Books)
  • Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace: Selected Poetry and Prose by Four Native American Writers (1994. Bookman)
  • Vortex of Indian Fevers (1995, TriQuarterly Books)
  • Ceremonies of the Damned (1997, University of Nevada Press)
  • Skull Dance (1998, Bull Thistle)
  • Ancient Acid Flashes Back (2000, Ancient Acid Flashes Back)
  • Bones & Juice (2001, TriQuarterly Books)
  • Evil Corn (2004, Ellis Press)
  • Deer Dreams (2006, Red Dragonfly Press)
  • Logorrhea (2006, TriQuarterly Books)
  • Savage Sunsets (2012, West End Press)
  • Random Exorcisms (2016, LSU Press)
  • The Bible of Adrian (2017, Bullhead Books)
  • Electric Snakes (2018, The Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press)

Prose
  • Skins (1995, Crown)
  • Wild Indians & Other Creatures (1996, University of Nevada Press)

Filmography
  • Skins (2002) - screenplay

References
  1. Adrian C. Louis
  2. "Nevada Writers Hall of Fame: Adrian Louis". University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. adrian-c-louis.com
  • Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4
  • Adrian-C-Louis.com
  • NativeWiki profile of Adrian C. Louis
  • Adrian C. Louis on the Modern American Poetry website.
  • World Literature Today article by Robert Berner in 2004
  • Louis at Poetry Foundation
  • Louis at Academy of American Poets
  • Louis at Hanksville
  • Obituary Article on Indianz.com
  • Louis on IMDB
  • Louis at the Bush Foundation
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.