James Welch (writer)

James Welch (writer)

James Welch (November 18, 1940–August 4, 2003), was an award-winning U.S. author and poet. Welch is considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow received several National Literary awards.

Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1997.

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