Native American Authors

Geary Hobson, 1941-

Cherokee

Quapaw

Chickasaw

Geary Hobson was born in 1941, in Chicot County, Arkansas. Hobson served as director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of New Mexico before joining the English Department of the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches and coordinates courses in Indian literature. He is compiling a literary and critical history of North and Central American Indian literature. He belives that Indian writing should be treated as a separate Anglophone literature.

Awards and Honors

Wordcraft Circle Mentor of the Year, 1998

Books by Geary Hobson:

Hobson, Geary. Deer hunting and other poems
New York : Strawberry Press with Renegade/Point Riders Press, 1990.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0937280283

Hobson, Geary. The last of the Ofos
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0816519587

Hobson, Geary. The remembered earth : an anthology of contemporary Native American literature
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1981.
Genre: Anthologies
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0826305849

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