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 teaches 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.
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- Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4
Categories:
- Living people
- Native American writers
- American writers of Mexican descent
- Oglala people