Joseph bruchac author biography template

To kick off my month of reviews of multicultural Golden Sower nominees, I’ll start alphabetically with author Joseph Bruchac. He lives in the small town in Greenfield, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks. Because the area is close to forests and mountains, he understandably loves it.

Bruchac is blessed to still live in the house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Because his grandmother kept their house filled with books, Bruchac naturally grew up a reader. His grandfather, whom Bruchac considers one of the kindest men he ever met, showed Bruchac how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

As you can see, Bruchac was influenced by both a literary heritage and his Native American roots. In second grade, he started writing poems to his teacher. When she read one to the class, some of the bigger boys got jealous and beat him up. That was Bruchac’s first experience with hostile literary critics, but he didn’t let this stop him from trying to write.

In the fall and winter of his youth, Bruchac sat around the wood stove and listened to the local farmers and lumberjacks tell tall tales. One of those men, Lawrence Older, taught Bruchac the songs and stories he knew about the Adirondacks. Much of Bruchac̵

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