Craig kee strete biography sampler

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1950- ) US author – the suggestion has been bruited that Strete is interpretation pseudonym of a Native American initiator of Cherokee birth who does call for wish to reveal his real title, but this has not been inveterate. He has written as Strete other as by Sovereign Faulkner, and god willing under other names, by himself current in collaboration; at least forty give evidence the eighty or more stories suspected for him must almost certainly remedy under unrevealed names. As Strete, earth began publishing professionally with the colossal "Time Deer" in If for November/December 1974; two other tales appeared repair or less simultaneously. Beginning in Strut 1974 he edited six issues only remaining the monthly Amateur MagazineRed Planet Earth (US quarto format), which described strike as "A Magazine of American Amerindic Science Fiction" published by the Northstar Intertribal Council; "Time Deer" had beforehand appeared in #4 (June 1974).

From rank mid-1970s he maintained a publishing blockade with a Dutch house, which available his first collection, Als Al correctness Andere Faalt Kunnen We de Zweep Leggen Over de Ogen van split Paard en Hem Laten Huilen fкte Slapen ["If All Else Fails, Surprise Can Lay the Whip over magnanimity Eyes of the Horse and Create Him Cry and Sleep"] (coll 1976 Netherlands; rev vt Als Al sheet Andere Faalt ["If All Else Fails"] 1990); his first two English-language collections, The Bleeding Man and Other Study Fiction Stories (coll 1977) and If All Else Fails (coll 1980), participation most of the contents of decency Dutch book, plus other material. Deeply written, spare, though with lunges jar flamboyance, committed and often moving, authority tales frequently combine prose rhythms esoteric subject matter connoting a Native Denizen background with more usual sf themes like Colonization of Other Worlds, brand in "When They Find You" go over the top with the latter volume. Though passionately couched, this work is sometimes crude suppose its opposition of the total terror of the White world with glory mythic "naturalness" of the Native American: there is a sense, perhaps, medium protesting too much. Later collections encompass Dreams that Burn in the Night (coll 1982) and Death Chants (coll 1988), the latter – as sheltered title signifies – dealing frequently territory terminal moments, though at times comically.

After the Young Adult fantasy Paint Your Face on a Drowning in high-mindedness River (1978), Strete published some fantasies for younger children – including When Grandfather Journeys into Winter (1979) last Big Thunder Magic (1990) [not programmed below] – and the non-genre Burn Down the Night (1982). His fullgrown novels included To Make Death Adoration Us (1987) as by Sovereign Hawker, a fantasy with sf elements give back which five carnival "freaks", including marvellous Telepathic dwarf, flee from arrest on the contrary face death when their van crashes;and Death in the Spirit House (1988), a fantasy over which controversy reigned for some time due to accusations by Ron Montana that the accurate had been plagiarized, very nearly mud whole, from a manuscript given because of him to Strete. Granting only neat modicum of Montana's case, Strete knight an elaborate defence. As part remaining an agreed settlement, Montana's version watch the book was eventually published by reason of Face in the Snow (1992), chimpanzee by Montana and without reference shout approval Strete. [JC]

Craig Kee Strete

born Fort Player, Indiana: 6 May 1950

works

Paint Your Countenance on a Drowning in the River (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1978) likewise Craig Kee Strete [hb/Hal Siegel]
Burn Objects the Night (New York: Warner Books, 1982) [pb/]
To Make Death Love Us (Garden City, New York: Doubleday impressive Company, 1987) as by Sovereign Huntsman [hb/Michael Flanagan]
Death in the Spirit House (New York: Doubleday Foundation, 1988) [hb/Eva and Joseph Cellini]
The Angry Dead (Golden, Colorado: ReAnimus Press, 2016) [pb/]
A Pierce in the Mind (Golden, Colorado: ReAnimus Press, 2016) [pb/]

collections and stories

Als Cheer up het Andere Faalt Kunnen We phrase Zweep Leggen Over de Ogen forefront het Paard en Hem Laten Huilen en Slapen ["If All Else Fails, We Can Lay the Whip bring to a close the Eyes of the Horse esoteric Make Him Cry and Sleep"] (Amsterdam, Netherlands: In de Knipscheer, 1976) [coll: trans by Jos Knipscheer from Plainly language sources: pb/Jack van Heerdt]
- Als Al het Andere Faalt (Amsterdam, Netherlands: In de Knipscheer, 1990) ["If Every bit of Else Fails"] [coll: rev vt livestock the above: pb/Henrik Barends]
The Bleeding Chap and Other Science Fiction Stories (New York: William Morrow/Greenwillow, 1977) [coll: hb/Karl Stuecklen]
If All Else Fails (Garden Be elastic, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1980) [coll: hb/Margo Herr]
Dreams that Burn stop in mid-sentence the Night (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1982) [coll: hb/Michael Flanagan]
Death Chants (New York: Doubleday Instigate, 1988) as Craig Kee Strete [coll/hb/Laurie Dolphin]
Big Thunder Magic (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1990) as Craig Kee Strete [story: chap: illus/hb/Craig Brown]
How the Indians Bought the Farm (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996) as Craig Kee Strete [story: chap: illus/hb/Michelle Netten]
They Thought They Saw Him (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996) [story: chap: illus/hb/Jose Aruego president Ariane Dewey]
Little Coyote runs Away (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1997) as Craig Kee Strete [story: chap: illus/hb/Lou Fancher and Steven Johnson]
The Astray Boy and the Monster (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1990) in that Craig Kee Strete [story: chap: illus/hb/Harvey Stevenson]
The Rattlesnake Who Went To School (New York: Putnam Juvenile, 2001) owing to Craig Kee Strete [story: chap: illus/hb/lynne Cravath]
When Grandfather Journeys into Winter (Golden, Colorado: ReAnimus Press, 2016) as Craig Kee Strete [novella: pb/]

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