- Anna Lee Walters
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website =Anna Lee Walters (born 1946) is a
Pawnee /Otoe-Missouria author fromOklahoma . [ [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/walters_anna_lee.html VG: Artist Biography: Walters, Anna Lee ] ] She works at theDiné College , where she directs the college press. [ [http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A97 Native American Authors: Anna Lee Walters ] ] She lives in Tsaile, Arizona with her husband, Harry Walters, the Director of the Museum at Diné College. [ [http://www.nativewiki.org/Anna_Lee_Walters Anna Lee Walters - NativeWiki ] ] Her first novel, "Ghost Singer" (1994) is a dual mystery, one mystery being the suicide of researchers at theSmithsonian attributed to ghosts related to Indian artifacts there, the other mystery revolving around the way Indians understand there position in their ancestry and culture. Turning the genre on its head, only the latter mystery is resolved. Hershort story collection , "The Sun Is Not Merciful," won theBefore Columbus Foundation 1985American Book Award .References
*Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", "Collection Building" 17.1 (1998), p. 4
See also
*Literature Portal
*List of Native American writers
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