Novels:
Little
The Hiawatha
Dr Apelles
Essay Collection:
Native American Fiction
bio
David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in
northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Fulbright
Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and
was a finalist for the Penn West prize in 1999. Treuer has completed his
third novel, The Translation of Dr Apelles. He
divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Minneapolis.
The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal court judge, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University where he wrote two senior theses—one in anthropology and one in creative writing—and where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999.
His novels have been translated into Norwegian, Finnish, French,
and Greek.
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual convincingly questions the validity of the debates of authenticity that have surrounded discussions of Indian literature. David Treuer's book is likely to become the manifesto of a new generation of Native American writers and critics and will be of interest to readers of literature 
—Werner Sollors, author of Beyond Ethnicity, Theories of Ethnicity, and The Invention of Ethnicity