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(1901-1963) Writer and anthropologist. Oliver La Farge was born in New York City. He graduated from Harvard (B.A. 1924, M.A. 1929). He conducted three archaeological expeditions to Arizona and ethnological expeditions to Guatemala and Mexico. La Farge used his field experience to authenticate his reflective stories of Native American habit and character. “Laughing Boy” (1929), a novel of Navajo life, won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Other works are “The Sparks Fly Upward” (1931), “The Enemy Gods” (1937), and the stories “All The Young Men” (1935). “Santa Fe” recounts the history of that city.
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Oliver La Farge
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