GERALD HAUSMAN
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Gerald Hausman, author of over 70 books, has traveled widely in America as a professional storyteller and public speaker. His work in Native American studies has been aired on radio coast-to-coast and cited in The New York Times and many other national and international publications. Mr. Hausman has received 35 awards and honors from the American Folklore Society; Bank Street College; New York Public Library; National Council of Social Studies; Parents Choice; Children's Book Council; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for his books, some of which have been adapted for film, many of which have been used in classrooms around the world. His collection of Native American origin stories, How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet has reached over one million readers and his numerous books about Bob Marley, co-authored by Cedella Marley, have been reprinted each year since the 1990s. Mr. Hausman has been called "a native of the world" by teachers and educators in all walks of life.
The stories in The American Storybag are a fleeting yet incisive look at American life, primarily on the road, but sometimes on or in the water, and have been collected by Gerald Hausman since 1965. Some of the tales are very brief and may be called "sudden stories". Many of them deal with human survival - an autistic boy lost in a trackless swamp; a young woman who falls in love with a supernatural creature; a young man who finds himself by finding his horse. Some of the tales are mere messages left on a cell phone. Others, like the story Bimini Blue tell about a Navajo healing ceremony given to a famous author who committed suicide. There are stories of ghosts, demons, fearsome predators, and wise old men who take the innocent in hand and lead them on the road to wisdom. These are tales of innocence and anguish, fantasy and fable, humor and heart. In them we hear the voices of a lost America - an America of folk heroes fading fast from view and crying out to be heard.
"Not since Mark Twain has a writer presented classic American storytelling so honestly. Hausman is at his best with this collection, truly entertaining."
- Hilary Hemingway, author of Hemingway in Cuba, on The American Storybag
Gerald Hausman lives is Bokeelia, Florida with his wife Lorry.
Links:
Thirsty : 2012 February : Would Hemingway Tweet?
Thirsty : 2012 January : An Interview with Noted Author Gerald Hausman about the Wolf
Thirsty : 2011 December : Rebellion in America - An Old Story
Thirsty : 2011 November : 1929
Thirsty : 2011 October : From Typewriters to eBooks
Thirsty : 2011 September : Literary Gold
Thirsty : 2011 August : Being Mr. Rogers
Thirsty : 2011 July : The Weight of Water
Thirsty : 2011 June : A Gun in the Hand
Thirsty : 2011 May : The Martians Are Coming!
Thirsty : 2011 April : A Word of Rastafari...Love of Bee
Thirsty : 2011 March : The Wolf Within
Thirsty : 2011 February : Split in Twain - The "N" Word Dissected
Thirsty : 2011 January : Reflections On The Life of Jan Wiener
Thirsty : 2010 December : Muzzled in America
Thirsty : 2010 November : 40 Years of Listening - A Story-Gatherer's Life
Thirsty : 2010 October : THE AMERICAN STORYBAG - A Collection of Tales
Thirsty : 2010 October : A Conversation with Geronimo
Thirsty : 2010 September : From Pony Express to Telepathy - Be-mail: the E-mail of Tomorrow
Thirsty : 2010 August : Folklore and Fakelore, UFOs and USOs?
Thirsty : 2010 January : Interview with Gerald Hausman – Folklorist and Listener
Gerald Hausman - Author & Storyteller
Gerald Hausman's Profile on Wikipedia