Alex Boulanger

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Alex Boulanger is the pen name of Monte Boulanger. His first novel In the Sweet Light, was published in 2001.

[edit] Biography

Boulanger was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and attended Caney Valley High School in Caney, Kansas. Later, he attended Coffeyvillle Community College (Kansas) and Pittsburg State University (Kansas). He received a BBA in Finance from PSU. He currently lives in Bentonville, Arkansas.

[edit] Trivia

  • Boulanger is a citizen of the Osage Nation and is an eighth generation descendant of Osage Chief Pawhuska.
  • Charles Curtis, the 31st Vice President of the United States was the Great-Great-Great Grandson of Chief Pawhuska. Curtis was the first American Indian to hold the office.
  • Boulanger's paternal uncle, Leon Boulanger, was a fiddle player for Ernest Tubb for a short time in the late 1960s. Tubb's band was known as The Texas Troubadours.