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Forrest Carter

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born

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

died

June 07, 1979

gender

male

genre

Children's Books, Politics

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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

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Books by Forrest Carter

Average rating: 4.03 · 5,722 ratings · 843 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Education of Little Tree 4.03 avg rating — 5,297 ratings — published 1976 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Josey Wales: Two Westerns: Gone to Texas/The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales by Forrest Carter, Lawrence Clayton (Afterword) 4.24 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Watch for Me on the Mountain 4.09 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gone to Texas 3.90 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Reader's Digest Condensed Books. by Marilyn Sharp, Forrest Carter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979	My rating:

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Quotes 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

tags: family , past

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“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

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“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

tags: death , enemies , josey-wales , life , noremorse

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