Irvin Morris

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Irvin Morris (1958-) is a Navajo Nation writer whose clans are Tobaahi and Totsonii. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, finished his bachelor’s degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received an MFA from Cornell University. Having taught at several universities, he is now a faculty member in the Division of Communications, Fine Arts, and Humanities at the main campus of Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. His work, From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (1997) is a blend of Navajo mythology, history, fictionalized memoir, and Navajo stories. The title is taken from the Navajo creation story about the last of five existing worlds, our own, which is called the glittering world.

[edit] Books

From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

[edit] Reference

Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4