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James Welch

James Welch (1940 – 2003) was the author of the novels Winter in the BloodThe Death of Jim LoneyFools Crow (for which he received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award), The Indian Lawyer, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk.  Welch also wrote a nonfiction book, Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, and a work of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and served on the Montana State Board of Pardons.
Winter in the Blood
Fools Crow
The Death of Jim Loney
Winter in the Blood
Riding the Earthboy 40
The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Books

Winter in the Blood
Fools Crow
The Death of Jim Loney
Winter in the Blood
Riding the Earthboy 40
The Heartsong of Charging Elk

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