David Treuer
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David Treuer (born 1970) is a writer of Ojibwe and Jewish descent. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. He attended Princeton University and was graduated in 1992 after writing two senior theses, one in the anthropology department and one in the Princeton Program in Creative Writing. While at Princeton he studied with Joanna Scott and Paul Muldoon and his thesis advisor was the Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison.
His first novel, Little, was published in 1995. His second novel, The Hiawatha, followed in 1999. In the fall of 2006 he published two books simultaneously, The Translation of Dr Apelles and Native American Fiction: A User's Manual.
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He is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Translation of Dr Apelles was named a "Best Book for 2006" by the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Time Out Chicago, and City Pages.
[edit] References
- New York Times Profile of David Treuer
- Washington Post Review of The Translation of Dr Apelles
- Washington Post Interview with David Treuer
