Robert L. Perea
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Robert L. Perea (born in Wheatland, Wyoming) is an American author. He has written short stories and novels, and his work contains elements of magical realism.
Perea is of Mexican-American and Oglala Lakota heritage. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a graduate of the University of New Mexico. He is a former professor of philosophy and history at Central Arizona College. Perea's Stacey's Story received the 1992 First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
References
[edit]- Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4
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- Living people
- American military personnel of the Vietnam War
- American male novelists
- American short story writers
- American writers of Mexican descent
- Native American novelists
- Native American short story writers
- Oglala male writers
- Oglala writers
- University of New Mexico alumni
- People from Wheatland, Wyoming
- Writers from Wyoming