Happy 95th, Richard Erdoes! (Austrian writer, "American Indian Myths and Legends")
leno...@yahoo.com
Mexico. Also a photographer, muralist and illustrator, he illustrated
"Come Over to My House" by Theo Le Sieg (Dr. Seuss)!
Also a contributor to "Smithsonian" magazine.
He won three awards for the 1990 "Lakota Woman."
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=%22richard+erdoes%22+
(photos & covers)
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Erdoes,%20Richard
(book descriptions)
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lamedeer.html
(About the book "Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions" with a brief bio of
Erdoes)
WRITINGS:
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (JUVENILE)
A Picture History of Ancient Rome, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1962.
The Green Tree House, Dodd (New York, NY), 1965.
Policemen around the World, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1967.
Peddlers and Vendors around the World, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY),
1967.
Ireland: Bewitching Wonderland, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1968.
Musicians around the World, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1971.
The Sun Dance People: The Plains Indians, Their Past and Present,
Random House (New York, NY), 1972.
The Native Americans: Navajos, edited by Marvin L. Reiter, Sterling
(New York, NY), 1978.
Native Americans: The Sioux, edited by Marvin L. Reiter, Sterling (New
York, NY), 1982.
Native Americans: The Pueblos, edited by Reiter, Sterling (New York,
NY), 1983.
(ADULT)
The Pueblo Indians, Funk & Wagnell (New York, NY), 1967.
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (biography), Simon & Schuster (New York,
NY), 1971.
Yuwipi (novel), Avon (New York, NY), 1977
1,000 Remarkable Facts about Booze, Rutledge (New York, NY), 1981.
ILLUSTRATOR
James Joyce, The Cat and the Devil, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1964.
Theodore Le Sieg (Ted Geisel), Come Over to My House, Random House
Beginner Books (New York, NY), 1966.
Alexander King, Memoirs of a Certain Mouse, McGraw-Hill (New York,
NY), 1966.
Barbara Shook Hazen, What's Inside?, Lion Press (New York, NY), 1968.
Helen Hoke, The Big Book of Jokes, Franklin Watts (New York, NY),
1971.
Silvio A. Bedini, The Spotted Stones, Pantheon Books (New York, NY),
1978.
(And editor) Tales from the American Frontier, Pantheon Books (New
York, NY), 1991, reprinted as Legends and Tales of the American West,
Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1998.
Nancy Wood, Thunderwoman: A Mythic Novel of the Pueblos, Dutton Books
(New York, NY), 1999.
OTHER
(Photographer) Robert Burnette, The Tortured Americans, Prentice-Hall
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1971.
The Rain Dance People: The Pueblo Indians, Their Past and Present,
Knopf (New York, NY), 1976.
(Transcriber and editor) Lame Deer, Jenny Leading Cloud, Leonard Crow
Dog, and others, The Sound of Flutes and Other Legends, illustrated by
Paul Goble, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1976.
Saloons of the Old West, Knopf (New York, NY), 1979, reprinted,
Gramercy Books (New York, NY), 1996.
(Selector and editor, with Alfonso Ortiz) American Indian Myths and
Legends, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1984.
The Richard Erdoes Illustrated Treasury of Classic Unlaundered
Limericks, introduction by Isaac Asimov, Balsam Press (New York, NY),
1984.
A.D. 1000: Living on the Brink of Apocalypse, Harper & Row (San
Francisco, CA), 1988.
Crying for a Dream: The World through Native-American Eyes, Bear & Co.
(Sante Fe, NM), 1990.
(With Mary Brave Bird) Lakota Woman (autobiography), Grove Weidenfeld
(New York, NY), 1990.
(With Archie Fire Lame Deer) The Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings
of a Lakota Medicine Man, Bear & Co. (Sante Fe, NM), 1992.
(With Mary Brave Bird) Ohitika Woman (autobiography; sequel to Lakota
Woman), Grove Press (New York, NY), 1993.
(With Leonard Crow Dog) Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine
Men, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.
(Selector and editor, with Alfonso Ortiz) American Indian Trickster
Tales, Viking (New York, NY), 1998.
(With Dennis Banks) Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the
American Indian Movement, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK),
2004.
Lenona.