Stephen Graham Jones

Cécile Heim (Université de Lausanne)

Ed. by Sarah Henzi, Simon Fraser University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.6: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - United States.
Vol. editors: Joshua Bartlett (High Point University), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

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Born 1972

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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First Nations/Indigenous US-American

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Stephen Graham Jones is one of the most prolific authors of horror, gothic, crime, and speculative fiction who, in 2019, numbers sixteen novels, six short story collections, three novellas, more than two hundred fifty stories, and two comic books among his oeuvre. His writing earned him numerous prizes and fellowships including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and four This Is Horror Awards. While Jones is Blackfeet and his ancestry and culture are important to him and his work, he underlines the importance of not being read uniquely as a Native American writer for two reasons. Firstly, he wishes that his work be valued for its intrinsic quality rather than as a cultural experience. Secondly, he resists any critical and market prescription on Indigenous writers in…

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Citation: Heim, Cécile. "Stephen Graham Jones". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 November 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14104, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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