Gerald Robert Vizenor

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1981
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Earthdivers

  • The Trickster of Liberty

    In his superbly written satirical tales, Vizenor draws readers into the world of the Native American tribal trickster, ``a warrior on a coin that never lands twice on the same side.'' The author imaginatively recounts the escapades of a family of Mis...

  • Narrative Chance

    Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in triba...

  • Griever

    Griever de Hocus, an American, reservation-born tribal trickster, becomes a teacher at Zhou Enlai University in China, but is soon flouting the state bureaucracy like the cosmic trickster common to both Chinese and Native American mythology...

  • Bearheart

    While Vizenor's ( Griever ) long-out-of-print peculiar fantasy generally draws more from Indian mythology than from realism, some of its material (such as a reference to Bernadette Devlin) has become dated since its original publication in 1978 as Da...

  • The Heirs of Columbus

    "If you must read a book on Columbus," declared the Los Angeles Times in its review of The Heirs of Columbus, "this is the one." Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer ...

  • Landfill Meditation

    In these fourteen stories Gerald Vizenor leads his crossblood characters out of romantic thickets into a new tribal world of psychotaxidermy, laser holograms, and urban ceremonies. Dancing with tricksters, animals, and language is never dangerous in ...

  • Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World

    Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and a...

  • Shadow Distance

    A wide-ranging collection of fiction, essays, poetry and more by the acclaimed Native American author of Bearheart and Interior Landscapes.Gerald Vizenor is one of our era’s most important and prolific Native American writers. Drawing on the best w...



  • Native American Literature

  • Hotline Healers

    In this collection of eleven linked stories, Gerald Vizenor brings back one of his most popular characters, Almost Browne, in full trickster force. Born in the back of a hatchback, almost on the White Earth Reservation, this crossblood storyteller se...

  • Chancers

    Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University ...

  • The Trickster of Liberty: Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage

    Inventive, provocative, and ultimately affirmative, The Trickster of Liberty has become a classic in the repertoire of celebrated author Gerald Vizenor. A series of related stories, the novel follows the lives of seven mixedblood trickster sibling...

  • Father Meme

    Father Meme, a sleazy priest, abused three altar boys at the Indian Mission Church of the Snow, located on an Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.

    The sexual abuse evolves at the mission, at Saint John's Abbey, and on a houseboat at La...

  • Native Storiers: Five Selections

    Gerald Vizenor presents in this anthology some of the best contemporary Native American Indian authors writing today. The five books from which these excerpts are drawn are published in the University of Nebraska Press’s Native Storiers series. ...

  • Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57

    Hiroshima Bugi is an ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the humane peace contender, is the hafu orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anish...

  • Shrouds of White Earth

    --Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist’s long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris

    Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native American Indian artist i...

  • Chair of Tears

    The best stories create traditions, and this novel by celebrated Native American writer Gerald Vizenor is a marvelous conjunction of trickster stories and literary ingenuity. Chair of Tears is funny, fierce, ironic, and deadly serious, a sendup of sa...

  • Blue Ravens

    Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens is set at the start of the twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at Châtea...



  • Treaty Shirts

    Gerald Vizenor creates masterful, truthful, surreal, and satirical fiction similar to the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. In this imagined future, seven natives are exiled from federal sectors that have replaced federal reser...

  • Native Tributes

    Native Tributes is a sequel to Blue Ravens by Gerald Vizenor, a historical novel about Native Americans in the First World War published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014. Basile Hudon Beaulieu, a native writer, his brother Aloysius, an abstract a...

  • Satie on the Seine

    In this historical epistolary novel from an award-winning author, Native American brothers survive the Nazi occupation of Paris. In this powerful epistolary novel, acclaimed Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor interweaves history, cultural stories, and...

  • Waiting for Wovoka

    Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's FairIn the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exposition, World...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Robert Vizenor has published 23 books.

Gerald Robert Vizenor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Waiting for Wovoka, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Gerald Robert Vizenor, Earthdivers, was published in June 1981.

No. Gerald Robert Vizenor does not write books in series.
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