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Encyclopedia entry: La Farge, Oliver (Hazard Perry)
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La Farge, Oliver [Hazard Perry]
(1901–63), ethnologist and author, after graduation from Harvard (1924) conducted archaeological investigations in Arizona, Mexico, and Guatemala, and with Frans Blom wrote
Tribes and Temples
(2 vols., 1925, 1927).
Laughing Boy
(1929, Pulitzer Prize) is a novel of life among the Navajo Indians, and his later novels include
Sparks Fly Upward
(1931), set in Central America;
Long Pennant
(1933), a story of 19th‐century New England seamen;
The Enemy Gods
(1937), about Navajo inability to adapt to white civilization; and
The Copper Pot
(1942), about a New ...