Paula Gunn Allen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paula Gunn Allen

Native American writer

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1939

Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Date of Death: 29-May-2008

Profession: writer, poet, author, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist.
Of mixed-race European-American, Native American, and Arab-American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo and childhood years.
She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction poetry and also wrote numerous essays on its themes.
She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary works and wrote two biographies of Native American women. In addition to her literary work, in 1986 she published a major study on the role of women in American Indian traditions, arguing that Europeans had de-emphasized the role of women in their accounts of native life because of their own patriarchal societies.
It stimulated other scholarly work by feminist and Native American writers.