W. S. PENN is a mixed-blood Native American (Nez Perce) who was a Washburn Distinguished lecturer and has won the distinguished Faculty Award at Michigan State University. He is the author of two novels, The Absence of Angels and Killing Time with Strangers; a collection of short stories titled This Is the World; and two collections of essays, All My Sins Are Relatives and Feathering Custer. He has won many literary awards including the North American Indian Prose Award and a Critic’s Choice Award. Raising Bean: Essays on Laughing and Loving is his most recent book.
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https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/raising-bean