Oliver La Farge

Born in 1901, OLIVER HAZARD PERRY LA FARGE is ranked among the literary lions of American Southwestern letters. Since his death in 1963, his reputation has continued to grow and new honors have been added to his name. Laughing Boy, a novel of Navajo life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930, putting his name in lights before he was 30. His books include "Behind the Mountains," "Raw Material: The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist's Journey into Maturity," "A Pause in the Desert and Other Stories," "The Enemy Gods," "The Man With the Calabash Pipe," and "The Mother Ditch," all available from Sunstone press.