Richard Dauenhauer

Richard Dauenhauer (born 1942 Syracuse, New York) is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer. He won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804

Life

He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a dissertation titled Text and Context of Tlingit Oral Tradition.[1]

From 1981 to 1988, he was the poet laureate of Alaska.[2]

Together the Dauenhauers are the editors of the Sealaska Heritage Foundation's highly regarded Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature series.

He lives in Juneau. His papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/20700
  2. ^ http://www.jacwell.org/poetry/1997-Spring-Richard%20Dauenhauer.htm
  3. ^ http://www.consortiumlibrary.org/archives/FindingAids/hmc-0099.html