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About Johnny Payne
- Johnny Payne is a dramatist, novelist, scholar, and has been a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus.
- He has been head of a Northwestern University Latin American Studies program in Cusco, Peru.
- Payne received his bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature at Indiana University and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alabama.
- He completed his PhD at Stanford University. Payne conducted fieldwork in the Quechua highlands of Peru and has published two books from this research.
- Cuentos cusqueños is a dual language text, in both Quechua and Spanish, and gives stories told by several Quechua native speakers.
- She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales is a translation of Quechua folktales into English. Payne also wrote the novel Kentuckiana.
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