![Oliver La Farge - Slick Cat Books](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Oliver_Hazard_Perry_La_Farge_%28page_32_crop%29.jpg)
December 19, 1901 - August 2, 1963
American anthropologist and writer of novels and non-fiction books
Author of "Laughing Boy" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1929), "The Year Bearer's People" (co-written with Douglas Byers) and "An Alphabet for Writing the Navajo Language"