Robert J. Conley

Robert J. Conley war ein amerikanischer und cherokischer Autor, der am 29. Dezember 1940 in Cushing, Oklahoma, geboren wurde. Er verstarb am 16. Februar 2014 und hinterließ ein Erbe des Romaneschreibens, das seine indigene amerikanische Herkunft erforschte. Bekannt unter seinem vollen Geburtsnamen, Robert Jackson Conley, erhielt er 2007 den Preis für sein Lebenswerk von der Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Als cherokischer Autor und eingetragenes Mitglied der Cherokee Nation, einer vom Bund anerkannten Gruppe amerikanischer Ureinwohner, spiegelte Conleys Werk oft seine kulturelle Hintergrund und Erfahrungen wider. Seine Schrift umfasste verschiedene Genres, wie historische Fiktion, Krimi und Western, die alle seine einzigartige Perspektive als indigener amerikanischer Autor zeigten. Conleys Fähigkeit, fesselnde Erzählungen mit genauen kulturellen Details zu verweben, machte sein Werk sowohl unterhaltsam als auch lehrreich.

Im Laufe seiner Karriere veröffentlichte Conley über 40 Romane und mehrere Kurzgeschichten und erwarb sich damit kritische Anerkennung und eine treue Fangemeinde. Seine Arbeit wurde mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen bedacht, darunter der Spur Award der Western Writers of America und der Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award der Oklahoma Center for the Book. Conleys Beitrag zur indianischen Literatur und zum Fiktionsschreiben hinterließ eine nachhaltige Wirkung auf die literarische Welt.
The Real People Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Way of the Priests 1992
2 The Dark Way 1993
3 The White Path 1993
4 The Way South 1993
5 The Long Way Home 1994
6 The Dark Island 1995
7 The War Trail North 1995
8 War Woman 1997
9 The Peace Chief 1998
10 Cherokee Dragon 2000
11 Spanish Jack 2001
12 Sequoyah 2002
Texas Outlaw Books
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1 Fugitive's Trail 2000
2 A Cold Hard Trail 2001
3 The Devil's Trail 2002
Double D Western Books (with Don Coldsmith, with T.V. Olsen, with Ray Hogan, with William Colt MacDonald, with H.B. Broome, with)
# Titel Jahr
1 Bitter Grass 1967
2 The Tangled Web 1983
3 The Last Buffalo Hunt 1985
4 The Man Who Had Enemies 1988
5 The Whipsaw Trail 1991
6 Nickajack 1992
7 Gambler's Luck 1993
8 The Law and Lynchburg 2001
9 Farewell to Texas 2008
Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Go-Ahead Rider 1990
2 To Make a Killing 1994
3 Outside the Law 1995
Einzelromane
# Titel Jahr
1 Back to Malachi 1986
2 The Actor 1987
3 Killing Time 1988
4 Wilder & Wilder 1988
5 Colfax 1989
6 The Saga of Henry Starr 1989
7 Quitting Time 1989
8 Ned Christie's War 1991
9 Strange Company 1991
10 Mountain Windsong 1992
11 Border Line 1993
12 The Long Trail North 1993
13 Geronimo 1994
14 Zeke Proctor 1994
15 Crazy Snake 1994
16 Captain Dutch 1995
17 The Meade Solution 1998
18 Incident at Buffalo Crossing 1998
19 Brass 1999
20 Barjack 2000
21 Broke Loose 2000
22 Medicine War 2001
23 The Gunfighter 2001
24 No Need for a Gunfighter 2008
25 Barjack and the Unwelcome Ghost 2009
26 Rio Loco 2011
27 The Brothers 2013
28 Walking the Trail 2015
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
# Titel Jahr
1 Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography 1988
2 Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum 2015
Sammlungen
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1 The Rattlesnake Band & Other Poems 1984
2 The Witch of Goingsnake 1988
3 Plastic Indian 2018
Sachbücher
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1 Cherokee 2002
2 Cherokee (With: David Fitzgerald) 2002
3 Cherokee Medicine Man 2005
4 The Cherokee Nation 2005
5 A Cherokee Encyclopedia 2007
6 Cherokee Thoughts 2008
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books
# Titel Jahr
1 All My Relations 1988
2 All My Relations (By: Thomas King) 1988
3 Narrative Chance 1989
4 Narrative Chance (By: Gerald Vizenor) 1989
5 Other destinies 1992
6 Other destinies (By: Louis Owens) 1992
7 The Sharpest Sight 1992
8 The Sharpest Sight (By: Louis Owens) 1992
9 Dead Voices 1992
10 Dead Voices (By: Gerald Vizenor) 1992
11 Firesticks of Stories (By: Diane Glancy) 1993
12 Firesticks of Stories 1993
13 Summer in the Spring (By: Gerald Vizenor) 1993
14 Summer in the Spring 1993
15 Faces in the Moon 1994
16 Faces in the Moon (By: Betty Louise Bell) 1994
17 Grand Avenue 1994
18 Grand Avenue (By: Greg Sarris) 1994
19 Bone Game (By: Louis Owens) 1994
20 Bone Game 1994
21 The Massacre at Sand Creek 1995
22 The Massacre at Sand Creek (By: Bruce Cutler) 1995
23 Only Approved Indians (By: Jack D. Forbes) 1995
24 Only Approved Indians 1995
25 Wolfsong (By: Louis Owens) 1995
26 Wolfsong 1995
27 Eye Killers 1995
28 Eye Killers (By: A. A. Carr) 1995
29 Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (By: James Ruppert) 1995
30 Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction 1995
31 Nightland (By: Louis Owens) 1996
32 Nightland 1996
33 On Native Ground (By: Jim Barnes) 1997
34 On Native Ground 1997
35 Kiss of the Fur Queen (By: Tomson Highway) 1998
36 Mixedblood Messages 1998
37 Kiss of the Fur Queen 1998
38 Mixedblood Messages (By: Louis Owens) 1998
39 Dark River (By: Louis Owens) 1999
40 Dark River 1999
41 Chancers (By: Gerald Vizenor) 2000
42 Chancers 2000
43 Briefcase Warriors (By: E. Donald Two-Rivers) 2001
44 Briefcase Warriors 2001
45 I Hear the Train 2001
46 I Hear the Train (By: Louis Owens) 2001
47 Other Words 2001
48 Other Words (By: Jace Weaver) 2001
49 The Mask Maker (By: Diane Glancy) 2002
50 The Mask Maker 2002
51 American Gypsy (By: Diane Glancy) 2002
52 American Gypsy 2002
53 Where the Pavement Ends 2003
54 Where the Pavement Ends (By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.) 2003
55 Field of Honor (By: D.L. Birchfield) 2004
56 Field of Honor 2004
57 Silko 2004
58 Silko (By: Brewster E. Fitz) 2004
59 The Trickster of Liberty 2005
60 The Trickster of Liberty (By: Gerald Vizenor) 2005
61 A Pipe for February 2005
62 A Pipe for February (By: Martin Scorsese, Charles H. Red Corn) 2005
63 The Marriage of Saints (By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew) 2006
64 The Marriage of Saints 2006
65 Muting White Noise 2006
66 Muting White Noise (By: James H. Cox) 2006
67 The Singing Bird 2007
68 The Singing Bird (By: John Milton Oskison) 2007
69 The Cherokee Syllabary 2011
70 The Cherokee Syllabary (By: Ellen Cushman) 2011
71 Twenty Thousand Mornings 2012
72 Twenty Thousand Mornings (By: Susan Kalter, John Joseph Mathews) 2012
73 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 (By: James W. Parins) 2013
74 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 2013
75 The Native American Renaissance (By: Alan R. Velie) 2013
76 The Native American Renaissance 2013
77 Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories 2014
78 Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories (By: Adam Fortunate Eagle) 2014
79 Progressive Traditions (By: Joshua B. Nelson) 2014
80 Progressive Traditions 2014
81 Creative Alliances 2014
82 Creative Alliances (By: Molly S. McGlennen) 2014
83 Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction 2015
84 Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction (By: Susan Kalter, John Joseph Mathews) 2015
85 Wil Usdi: Novella 2015
86 Wil Usdi: Novella (With: Luther Wilson) 2015
87 Imagining Sovereignty (By: David J. Carlson) 2016
88 Imagining Sovereignty 2016
89 Chenoo 2016
90 Chenoo (By: Joseph Bruchac) 2016
91 Red Bird, Red Power (By: Tadeusz Lewandowski) 2016
92 Red Bird, Red Power 2016
93 John Joseph Mathews (By: Michael Snyder) 2017
94 John Joseph Mathews 2017
95 Back to the Blanket 2017
96 Back to the Blanket (By: Kimberly G. Wieser) 2017
97 Plastic Indian 2018
98 Plastic Indian (With: Evelyn L. Conley, Geary Hobson) 2018
99 Padoskoks 2021
100 Padoskoks (By: Joseph Bruchac) 2021
101 Watermelon Nights (By: Greg Sarris) 2021
102 Watermelon Nights 2021
103 Native Removal Writing (By: Sabine N. Meyer) 2022
104 Native Removal Writing 2022
Double D Western Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Bitter Grass (By: T.V. Olsen) 1967
2 The Tan-Faced Children (By: Frank Calkins) 1978
3 The Tangled Web (By: Giles A. Lutz) 1983
4 The Last Buffalo Hunt (By: Gary McCarthy) 1985
5 The Man Who Had Enemies (By: H.B. Broome) 1988
6 Break the Young Land (By: T.V. Olsen) 1990
7 Keno (By: T.V. Olsen) 1991
8 The Whipsaw Trail (By: Ray Hogan) 1991
9 Nickajack 1992
10 Gambler's Luck (By: H.B. Broome) 1993
11 The Law and Lynchburg (By: Ray Hogan) 2001
12 Farewell to Texas (By: L.L. Foreman) 2008
Native American Library Books (with Helen Dwyer, with Amy Stone, with Mary A. Stout)
# Titel Jahr
1 Shoshone History and Culture 2011
2 Hopi History and Culture 2011
3 Creek History and Culture 2011
Robert J. Conley Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 All My Relations 1988
2 The Best of the American West II 1999