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(1940-2003) Novelist. James Welch was a visiting professor in the department of English at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in the springs of 1985 and 1990.

Full Name

James Welch

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline

1940

BIRTH

James Phillip Welch was born in Browning, Montana, in 1940.

1971

LITWORK

Riding the Earthboy 40
World Publishing.

Collection of poetry.

1974

LITWORK

Winter in the Blood
Harper.

Novel; winner of L.A. Times Book Prize and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award.

1979

LITWORK

The Death of Jim Loney
Harper.

Novel.

1985

OTHER

Welch was a visiting professor in the English department at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1985 and 1990.

1986

LITWORK

Fools Crow
Viking.

Novel; winner of L.A. Times Book Prize and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the American Book Award.

1990

LITWORK

The Indian Lawyer
Norton.

Novel.

1994

LITWORK

Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians


Nonfiction; co-written with Paul Stekler.

2000

LITWORK

The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Doubleday.

Novel.

2003

DEATH

James Welch died in Missoula, Montana, in 2003.

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