Craig Strete

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Craig Kee Strete (born May 6, 1950 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) is an American science fiction writer of Native American descent. His best-known book is Burn Down the Night (1982, German as Uns burns the night ), in which he deals with the encounter of a fifteen year old with Jim Morrison , the frontman of the music group The Doors .

Life

Strete's father is from the Cherokee tribe . Strete studied drama at Wright State University in Dayton , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1974 , and then at the University of California, Irvine , where he received his master's degree in 1978 . He then became an assistant professor of English at East Stroudsburg University (ESU) in Pennsylvania . 1974/1975 he was editor of the SF magazine Red Planet Earth . He is married to Countess Irmgard Margaretha Christina von Dam. From 1980 Strete worked for the De Knipscheer publishers in Amsterdam and Rogner & Bernhard in Munich in the field of international authors and licenses. From 1984 to 1985 he was editor-in-chief of East West Players Newsletter . He is co-founder and director of the Society of Ethnic Literature in Translation .

Strete's first SF story Time Deer (German as man in his world ) appeared in 1974 in Red Planet Earth and a few months later again in Worlds of If magazine . The story was nominated for a 1976 Nebula Award , along with the short novel The Bleeding Man . Since then, Strete has published a few dozen short stories, which were first published in Dutch translation in 1976 ( Other Faalt Kunnen We de Zweep Leggen Over de Ogen van het Paard en Hem Laten Huilen en Slapen ). Another collection in English, The Bleeding Man and Other Science Fiction Stories , was published in 1977. In 1982 the novel Burn Down the Night was published , inspired by Strete's encounter with Jim Morrison, in which he took a fictional wild trip with Morrison through downtown Los Angeles 1960s describes. The German edition saw numerous editions as a Rowohlt paperback.

In addition to his science fiction, in which Strete often reveals his Indian background and contrasts the machine world of the White Man with the mythically saturated world and worldview of the Indian, and some mainstream novels, including Burn Down the Night , he also wrote several Fantasy short stories for teenagers, including Paint Your Face on a Drowning in the River (1978).

As a writer, Strete claims to use various pseudonyms, which he always tries to keep secret. In 1987 the publisher Doubleday announced through an error that the book To Make Death Love Us , published under the pseudonym Sovereign Falconer, was also by Strete.

Besides Us Burns the Night, only a children's book and a few short stories were translated into German .

bibliography

Novels
  • Burn Down the Night (1982)
    • German: The night is burning us. A novel with Jim Morrison. Translated by Teja Schwaner. March, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88880-035-8 . Also as: Rororo # 5709, 1986, ISBN 3-499-15709-8 .
  • To Make Death Love Us (1987, as Sovereign Falconer)
  • Death in the Spirit House (1988)
  • The Angry Dead (2016)
  • A Knife in the Mind (2016)
  • The Game of Cat and Eagle (2016)
  • My Gun Is Not So Quick (2016)
  • The Star Killer (2017, as Sovereign Falconer)
Collections
  • Other Faalt Kunnen We de Zweep Leggen Over de Ogen van het Paard en Hem Laten Huilen en Slapen (1976)
  • The Bleeding Man and Other Science Fiction Stories (1977)
  • If All Else Fails ... (1980)
  • Dreams That Burn in the Night (1982)
  • Death Chants (1988)
  • Dark Journey (2016, with Jim Morrison)
Short stories
  • Time Deer (1974)
    • German: man in his world. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 76. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31002, 1979, ISBN 3-548-31002-8 .
  • A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather (1974)
  • They Will Want to Shout / They Will Want to Scream (1974, with Mark Horse)
  • White Brothers from the Place Where No Man Walks (1974)
  • A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather (1974, with Jack Red Bear)
  • The Bleeding Man (1974, with Mark Horse)
  • Foot Fish Fools the Invisible (1974, with Jabe Elkheart)
  • The Bleeding Man (1974)
  • Into Every Rain, A Little Life Must Fall (1975)
  • Mother of Cloth, Heart of Clock (1975)
  • A Horse of a Different Technicolor (1975)
  • To See the City Sitting on Its Buildings (1975)
  • Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot (1976)
  • Saturday Night at the White Woman Watching Hole (1976)
  • With the Pain It Loves and Hates (1976)
  • Your Cruel Face (1976)
  • Why Has the Virgin Mary Never Entered the Wigwam of Standing Bear? (1976)
  • Who Was the First Oscar to Win a Negro? (1976)
  • The Dirty Old Man, or, Nocka, Nocka, Who Goes There? (1976, also as Nocka-Nocka and the Dirty Old Man )
  • Lovelife of the Leglorn (1976)
  • When They Find You (1977)
  • Three Dream Woman (1978, with Michael Bishop )
  • A Place to Die on the Photograph of Your Soul (1980)
  • All My Statues Have Stone Wings (1980)
  • Every World with a String Attached (1980)
  • Old, So Very Old, and in That Wisdom, Ageless (1980)
  • Piano Bird (1980)
  • Ten Times Your Fingers and Double Your Toes (1980)
  • When They Go Away (1980)
  • Where They Put the Staples and Why She Laughed (1980)
  • A Wounded Knee Fairy Tale (1982)
  • Closely Watched Urinals (1982)
  • Dancing the Dead Safe Into Their Beads (1982)
  • Gods Who Could Not Stay (1982)
  • I'm a Spy in the House of Love (1982)
  • Last Wish Fulfillment and Testament (1982)
  • Love Affair (1982)
  • Menstruation Taboos: A Women's Studies Perspective (1982, with Jim Morrison)
  • On the Way Home (1982)
  • Red Beauty (1982)
  • Report on the Recent Outbreak of Entertainment from Earth (1982)
  • Secret of the White-Head Hawk (1982)
  • Sleep Is the Only Freedom (1982)
  • The Night Xenex Sanurian Took a Wallflower to the Prom (1982)
  • The Second Team (1982)
  • We All Lived in the Warm Aquarium (1982)
  • We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About (1982)
  • The Game of Cat and Eagle (1987)
  • As If Bloodied on a Hunt Before Sleep (1987)
  • Another Horse of a Different Technicolor (1988)
  • In the Belly of the Death Mother (1988)
  • Knowing Who's Dead (1988)
  • Lives Far Child (1988)
  • On a Journey with Cold Friends: Novella (1988)
  • So That Men Might Not See (1988)
  • The Becalming of Wind River's Horse (1988)
  • The Fatal Joy of Bound Woman (1988)
  • The Man Who Danced with Wild Horses: Novella (1988)
  • The Voice of a New Instrument (1988)
  • When Death Catcher Paints the Wind (1988)
  • When Old Man Coyote Sang the World into Being (1988)
  • White Fox Talks About the End of the World (1988)
Plays
  • Paint Your Face on a Drowning in the River (1984)
  • A Sunday Visit with Great Grandfather, and The Arrow That Kills with Love (1984)
Children's and young people's book
  • Paint Your Face on a Drowning in the River (1978)
  • When Grandfather Journeys Into Winter (1979)
  • Big Thunder Magic (1990)

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personal data
SURNAME Strete, Craig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strete, Craig Kee (full name); Falconer, Sovereign (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION native american writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Wayne , Indiana USA