Oliver La Farge

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Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge ( 19th December 1901 in New York City - 2. August 1963 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American anthropologist and author. He was best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize- winning novel Laughing Boy .

Career

La Farge was born in New York City in 1901 and attended Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , where he received his BA in 1924 and his MA in 1929 . His professional, also literary work deals primarily with the topic of the Indians of North America .

On expeditions as an anthropologist to Central America and the southwestern United States , La Farge discovered two unknown languages; a particularly well-known expedition took him to Mexico in 1925 with Frans Blom , where they rediscovered the ruins of La Venta , among other things .

La Farge was committed to the rights of the indigenous peoples throughout his life and was president of the "Association on American Indian Affairs" for many years.

La Farge's extensive literary work includes scientific publications, novels and short stories. Only four books by him appeared in the German-speaking countries, two of them non-fiction and two fiction titles; Laughing Boy had been extremely successful in Germany since 1933 and had a total of 22 editions under four different titles by 1995.

In 1953 La Farge was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1957 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

La Farge was married twice and had three children; including the folk singer Peter La Farge (1931–1965).

Works in German

  • Laughing Boy (1929): Native American love story. Roman , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-78705-7
    • previous title: The Great Night Song. An Indian story , Diederichs, Jena 1933
  • The last bottle of whiskey , Ullstein, Berlin 1958
  • The great hunt. History of the North American Indians , Walter, Olten and Freiburg i. Br. 1961
Original title: A Pictorial History of the American Indian
  • The world of the Indians. Culture, history and struggle of a great people , O. Maier, Ravensburg 1961

literature

  • D'Arcy McNickle: Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge , Bloomington, Indiana University Press 1971, ISBN 978-0-253-14000-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015
  2. ↑ Members: Oliver La Farge. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME La Farge, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1963
Place of death Albuquerque , New Mexico