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John Joseph Mathews - Life of an Osage Writer (Paperback)
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John Joseph Mathews - Life of an Osage Writer (Paperback)
Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
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John Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) is one of Oklahoma's most revered
twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the
first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not
come easily to Mathews, and his personality was full of
contradictions. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder
provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure.
Known as ""Jo"" to all his friends, Mathews had a multifaceted
identity. A novelist, naturalist, biographer, historian, and tribal
preservationist, he was a true ""man of letters."" Snyder draws on
a wealth of sources, many of them previously untapped, to narrate
Mathews's story. Much of the writer's family life - especially his
two marriages and his relationships with his two children and two
stepchildren - is explored here for the first time. Born in the
town of Pawhuska in Indian Territory, Mathews attended the
University of Oklahoma before venturing abroad and earning a second
degree from Oxford. He served as a flight instructor during World
War I, traveled across Europe and northern Africa, and bought and
sold land in California. A proud Osage who devoted himself to
preserving Osage culture, Mathews also served as tribal councilman
and cultural historian for the Osage Nation. Like many gifted
artists, Mathews was not without flaws. And perhaps in the eyes of
some critics, he occupies a nebulous space in literary history.
Through insightful analysis of his major works, especially his
semiautobiographical novel Sundown and his meditative Talking to
the Moon, Snyder revises this impression. The story he tells, of
one remarkable individual, is also the story of the Osage Nation,
the state of Oklahoma, and Native America in the twentieth century.
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