Forrest Carter





Forrest Carter

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born
in Anniston, Alabama, The United States
September 04, 1925

died
June 07, 1979

gender
male

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About this author

Asa Earl "Forrest" Carter was an American political speechwriter and author. He was most notable for publishing novels and a best-selling, award-winning memoir under the name Forrest Carter, an identity as a Native American Cherokee. In 1976, following the publication success of his western The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, The New York Times revealed Forrest Carter to be Southerner Asa Earl Carter. His background became national news again in 1991 after his purported memoir, The Education of Little Tree, was re-issued in paperback and topped the Times paperback best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction). It also won the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award.

Prior to his literary career as "Forrest", Carter was politically a...more


Average rating: 4.06 · 7,577 ratings · 1,003 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Education of Little Tree
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 7,053 ratings — published 1976 — 38 editions
Josey Wales: Two Westerns: ...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
Watch for Me on the Mountain
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
Gone to Texas
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions
The Vengeance Trail of Jose...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
Η εκπαίδευση του Μικρού Δέν...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976
the outlaw josey wales
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976
Reader's Digest Condensed B...
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979
More books by Forrest Carter…
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.”
Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
Forrest Carter, The Outlaw Josey Wales

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