Author David Treuer mentored a generation of Native authors. Now, he'll publish them
David Treuer believes he might be one of a few professionals doing what a friend called "The Toni Morrison trifecta": teaching, writing and editing.
It's an apt comparison. As an editor at Random House for many years before going on to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Morrison brought the world writing from Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones and Henry Dumas, opening books and publishing to unapologetic Black authors and expanding American culture even before she wrote masterpieces like "Beloved." (She later taught writers, including Treuer, at Princeton.)
Treuer, in his new gig, has positioned himself to do something equivalent for Indigenous writers. Last month, Pantheon Books, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, announced that Treuer would become
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