Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor in Geneva, 2000
Born	Gerald Robert Vizenor 1934 (age 89–90) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation	Writer literary critic professor ethnographer
Nationality	White Earth Band of Ojibwe
Genre	Anishinaabe traditional, haiku
Literary movement	Postmodernism, Native American Renaissance
Notable works	Interior 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.