"WLT's On the Craft of Writing" with David Treuer

On the Craft of Writing’s debut event features David Treuer, whose most recent book, the New York Times bestselling The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, mixes history, memoir, and reportage to create a sweeping history–and counter-narrative–of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

What reviewers are saying about the book:

“Chapter after chapter, it’s like one shattered myth after another.” – NPR

“A marvel of research and storytelling.” – O, the Oprah Magazine

“Treuer’s storytelling skills shine.” – The Economist

“An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait… Treuer’s powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation’s past..” – New York Times Book Review, front page

The Event

Treuer will discuss the process of combining different genres to create a hybrid nonfiction account, an increasingly popular form that uses memoir as just one tool available to the nonfiction writer. He will give a short lecture and then be in conversation with Writers’ League Program Director Michael Noll. Books will be for sale, with a signing following the lecture and conversation.