Native American Authors

Vincent L. Mendoza
, 1947-

Creek

Vincent Mendoza was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1947, the son of a Creek mother and a Mexican father. He is a Vietnam War veteran, and his autobiographical first book Son of Two Bloods, won the North American Indian Prose Award in 1994. Currently he lives in McAlester, Oklahoma, where he works as a freelance writer.

Awards and Honors

North American Indian Prose Award, 1994

Books by Vincent L. Mendoza:

Mendoza, Vincent L.. Son of Two Bloods
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Genre: Autobiography
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0-8032-3188-1

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