Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor in Geneva, 2000
Gerald Vizenor in Geneva, 2000
BornGerald Robert Vizenor
1934 (age 89–90)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • literary critic
  • professor
  • ethnographer
NationalityWhite Earth Band of Ojibwe
GenreAnishinaabe traditional, haiku
Literary movementPostmodernism, Native American Renaissance
Notable worksInterior Landscapes, Manifest Manners, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart
Website
www.hanksville.org/storytellers/vizenor/

Gerald Robert Vizenor (born 1934) is an American writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.