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 Robert J. Conley, one of the most distinguished contemporary Cherokee authors, will give a reading at Berea College on Friday, Nov. 6. The occasion is a celebration of the Fall 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage in which Robert J. Conley is the featured author. The event in the Gallery of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center in the Bruce Building on the Berea College campus and is free and open to all. Refreshments and conversation begins at 7:30 p.m. and the reading begins at 8.
Robert J. Conley is the author of “The Cherokee Nation: A History,” the authorized history of the Cherokees, and of “A Cherokee Encyclopedia,” as well as over seventy other novels, poetry collections and books. He was born in Cushing, Oklahoma, in 1940 and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Midwestern University and has served as Assistant Program Manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Conley currently lives in Sylva, N.C., and holds the Sequoyah Distinguished Professorship in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University. He is married to Evelyn Conley, chair of the board of the Indigenous Education Institute, Santa Fe, and an enrolled member of the Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee.
Appalachian Heritage is a literary quarterly which was founded in 1973 and has been published by Berea College since 1985.
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