New York Times bestselling author and editor David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fellow at the American Academy Berlin.
Treuer’s newest book, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy, was released on October 6, 2026. His last book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award Finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Harper's. He is an editor-at-large for Pantheon Books.
He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Upcoming/Recent Events:
Saturday, November 6, 2026, 2:00 PM — Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Dearborn, MI
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 5:30 PM — Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 10:30 AM — Vancouver Writers Fest, Vancouver, BC (with Elamin Abdelmahmoud)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 7:00 PM — McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, MB (with Jenny Heijun Wills)
Monday, October 19, 2026, 7:00 PM — Toronto Public Library, Toronto, ON (with Tanya Talaga)
Saturday, October 17, 2026, 10:00 AM — Wordfest, Calgary, AB (with Michael Christie and Tanya Talaga)
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4:00 PM — University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (with Peter A. Nelson)
Monday, October 12, 2026, 7:00 PM — Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
Sunday, October 11, 2026, 1:00 PM — Litquake at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA (with Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young)
Friday, October 9, 2026, 7:00 PM — Politics and Prose, Washington, DC
Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 6:30 PM — Village Well, Culver City, CA (with Jessica Cattelino)
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