Oliver La Farge

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Oliver La Farge


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
December 19, 1901

Died
August 02, 1963

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Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge was an American writer and anthropologist, perhaps best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy. Named for his father, Oliver H.P. Lafarge, he is the grandson of the artist and stained-glass pioneer John La Farge, nephew of the noted Beaux-Arts architect Christopher LaFarge and the father of the folk singer and painter Peter La Farge.

La Farge's short stories were published in The New Yorker and Esquire magazines. His more notable works, fiction and non-fiction, focus on Native American culture.

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“Time passing and corn growing cannot be seen; one can notice only that the moon has grown so much older, the corn so much higher.”
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

“Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?”
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

“He was a young man very much in love, a young man with a mind made up to love.”
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

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