Anna Lee Walters

Anna Lee Walters
Born (1946-09-09)September 9, 1946
Pawnee, Oklahoma
Nationality American
Notable awards American Book Award, 1985; Virginia McCormick Scully Award

Anna Lee Walters (born September 9, 1946, Pawnee, Oklahoma) is an award-winning Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria author.[1][2]

Career

Walters obtained her BA from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, where she also obtained her MFA in Creative Writing. Anna is an instructor in the Humanities Division at Diné College in Arizona where she has experience as an administrator and teacher, and as a publisher of educational and trade publications with Navajo Community College Press. She lives in Tsaile, Arizona[3] with her husband Harry Walters.[4] He is the former Director of the Museum at Diné College.[5]

Walters' first novel, Ghost Singer (1988) was published just two years before the passing of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and one year before the National Museum of the American Indian Act. This is important to note because the novel centers around a collection of Native American remains and artifacts housed in the Smithsonian and the subsequent effects the collection has on both native and non-native characters. The novel also explores how American Indians understand their position related to their ancestry and culture, especially in relation to the diaspora created by colonization.[6]

Her short story collection, The Sun Is Not Merciful, won the Before Columbus Foundation 1985 American Book Award and the Virginia McCormick Scully Award.[4][7]

Publications

Books

Anthologies

Journals

Interviews, autobiographical essays and critical work

Textbooks

Work published in translation

See also

References

  1. Yoder, Julie (2000-04-26). "Anna Lee Walters". Voices from the Gaps. University of Minnesota. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. Kratzert, Mona; Richey, Debora (March 1998). "Native American literature: expanding the canon". Collection Building. 17 (1): 4–15. doi:10.1108/01604959810368947. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  3. "Anna Lee Walters , 1946-". Native American Authors. Internet Public Library. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 Strom, Karen; Walters, Anna Lee. "Anna Lee Walters". Storytellers Native American Authors Online. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  5. "Harry Walters – Navajo Historian (Video)". Navajo People, Culture and History. Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Diné College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  6. Tillet, Rebecca (2005). ""Resting in Peace, Not in Pieces": The Concerns of the Living Dead in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 17 (3): 85–114. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  7. Kenny, Maurice, ed. (2000). Stories for a winter's night : short fiction by Native Americans. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-1877727962. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
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