Award Winning Author to Speak at Library
Robert J. Conley, Cherokee and award-winning author, will speak at the Grove Public Library Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 2:30 p.m. The public is invited to hear Conley. The occasion is the annual meeting of the Friends of the Grove Public Library.
Conley was born in Cushing, Ok. in 1940. He finished high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, then attended Midwestern University there where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1966 and his master’s in English in 1968. He has been assistant programs manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, director of Indian Studies at Eastern Montana College, Bacone College in Muskogee, and at Morningside College in Sioux City.
He also was an assistant professor of English there and an instructor of English at Southwest Missouri State University and at Northern Illinois University.
Conley’s first novel, Back to Malachi, was published in 1986. Since then he has had 34 novels published. A member of Western Writers of America, he has won two Spur awards for his novels Nickajack and The Dark Island, and another Spur award for his short story Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography published in The Witch of Goingsnake.
In 1997, Conley was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame. His most recent book out this year is The Cherokee Nation: A History which the American Library Association’s publication “Choice” has selected as one of the outstanding academic books for 2005.
That book and his book War Woman: A Novel of the Real People are two of the books Conley will have with him at Grove. Conley lives now in Tahlequah with his wife, Evelyn, and writes full time. Following his talk, there will be a break for a social time, an opportunity to talk with the author, have books autographed, and enjoy the refreshments. After the intermission, Marsha Tackkett, Friends president, will reconvene the meeting for the business portion of the day and the election of directors.
Conley was born in Cushing, Ok. in 1940. He finished high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, then attended Midwestern University there where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1966 and his master’s in English in 1968. He has been assistant programs manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, director of Indian Studies at Eastern Montana College, Bacone College in Muskogee, and at Morningside College in Sioux City.
He also was an assistant professor of English there and an instructor of English at Southwest Missouri State University and at Northern Illinois University.
Conley’s first novel, Back to Malachi, was published in 1986. Since then he has had 34 novels published. A member of Western Writers of America, he has won two Spur awards for his novels Nickajack and The Dark Island, and another Spur award for his short story Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography published in The Witch of Goingsnake.
In 1997, Conley was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame. His most recent book out this year is The Cherokee Nation: A History which the American Library Association’s publication “Choice” has selected as one of the outstanding academic books for 2005.
That book and his book War Woman: A Novel of the Real People are two of the books Conley will have with him at Grove. Conley lives now in Tahlequah with his wife, Evelyn, and writes full time. Following his talk, there will be a break for a social time, an opportunity to talk with the author, have books autographed, and enjoy the refreshments. After the intermission, Marsha Tackkett, Friends president, will reconvene the meeting for the business portion of the day and the election of directors.
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