Manuscript Collection CL-16,   2.5 linear inches (1 box)

Biographical sketch:
Joseph Bruchac received his Ph.D. from Union Institute (Ohio) in 1975. He was publisher and editor of Greenfield Review from 1969-1990 and instructor in Creative Writing and in African and Black Literatures from 1969-73 at Skidmore College in New York. He is a well-known poet, storyteller, novelist and children’s author who focuses on Native American topics. He has won many awards for his work, including the Woodcraft Circle Writer of the Year autobiography award in 1998 for Bowman’s Store.

Scope and Content Note:
The collection documents Joseph Bruchac’s authorship of Little Turtle and Seeing the Circle. It includes manuscript drafts, correspondence, biographical material as well as the signatures for Seasons of the Circle that were donated in 2002, several years after the rest of the collection was acquired.

Joseph Bruchac (1942-)
Papers 1998