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Oliver La Farge

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

December 19, 1901

Died

August 02, 1963

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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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	Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge, Wanden Lafarge Gomez 3.75 avg rating — 4,349 ratings — published 1929 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind the Mountains 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1951 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enemy Gods (A Zia Book) 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1937 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pictorial History of the American Indian 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1956 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spud and Cochise 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pause in the Desert 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1936 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cochise of Arizona really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mother Ditch 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Santa Fe : The Autobiography of a Southwestern Town liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1959 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sparks Fly Upward 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1931 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“But we shall never be far from each other, he thought, always alone but never lonely.”
― Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy

tags: laughingboy, love, native, oliverlafarge, pulitzer

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“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

tags: romance

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2024: What Frontier, Western, Adventure Classic (FWC) would you like to read next year? We read one a quarter. The top 4 will be chosen.

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

41 votes 28.9%

Smoke Bellew by Jack London

24 votes 16.9%

No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland

20 votes 14.1%

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry

17 votes 12.0%

The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay

12 votes 8.5%

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge

11 votes 7.7%

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

9 votes 6.3%

The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

8 votes 5.6%

142 total votes

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