About Zeese Papanikolas

Zeese Papanikolas is a writer and teacher who has investigated America, its myths, its history, its conflicts and silences, its moments of grace and rare beauty. His books contain studies of Native American trickster tales, writers such as Gertrude Stein, L. Frank Baum and Raymond Chandler, Mormon Dream Miners, Wobbly poets, cowboys both real and imagined, immigrant strikers in the Colorado coal fields, artists such as George Caleb Bingham and Jackson Pollock, cultural icon Hank Williams and historian Henry Adams.
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American Silence

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In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences.
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