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William Penn
(W.S.)
November 19, 1999
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William
S. Penn's collection of narrative essays, All My Sins Are
Relatives,
won the 1995 North American Indian Prose Award. He has also
published a collection of short stories, This is the World;
and a novel, Killing Time with Strangers, which won the 2001
American Book Award for Literary Merit. His most recent collection
of narrative essays, Feathering Custer, was released in 2001.
He is the editor of As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on
Race and Identity, and The Telling of the World:
Native American Stories and Art. He has been the recipient of a New York
Foundation for the Arts award; the Stephen Crane Prize for
Fiction; a Michigan Arts Council award; and Writer of the
Year in 1997 and Editor of the Year in 1998, both from the
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. His
book, The Telling of the World: Native American Stories
and Art, was named to the list of Best University Press Books
of 2000.
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W.S.
Penn is a Native American writer and professor of English at
Michigan State University.
In 2003, he received a Distinguished Faculty Award from MSU.
He likes to use the term "mixblood" to describe his
own background, which is a mixture of Nez Perce, Osage and English.
He was raised in Southern California where he attended Claremont
College. He earned his undergraduate degree at UC Davis and stayed
on for three years of graduate school, from 1970 to 1973. He
later earned his doctorate at Syracuse.
"In This Is The World, Penn moves through spaces, encounters
characters, and confronts humanity with a sage's omnipotence,
yet at the same time with an unassuming voice, devoid of pretentiousness.
His words are unflinching, but also unselfconscious." -MSU
Press
To view Special Collections' holdings of W.S. Penn's work,
please click here.
To hear Penn read from his own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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