Edited sentence: 2009), an autobiography which won an American Book Award in 1998.He is also the author of On Native Ground (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997; 2nd ed.In his later years, the 1970s, he taught the Choctaw language at Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Durant).Jim Barnes - author of nine books of poetry, including On a Wing of the Sun, The Sawdust War, Paris, The American Book of the Dead, and Visiting Picasso.Todd Downing - author of The Mexican Earth,a history of Old Mexico, and also several mystery novels published in the 1930s and early 40s, including The Cat Screams