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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance -- "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." -- Tommy Orange, The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Dur...



  • James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from b...



  • The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackf...



  • Sylvester Yellow Calf is a former reservation basketball star, a promising young lawyer, and a possible congressional candidate. But when a parolee ensnares him in a blackmail scheme, he'll have to decide just who he is, and what he wants....



  • From the award-winning author of the Native American classic Fools Crow, James Welch gives us a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of storytelling and the historical imagination.

    Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, join...



  • The KGB and an underground society of scientists opposed to space weapons conspire to bring down the space shuttle, suspected of carrying a new weapon into space. A newly elected president approves a program for a new space weapon which violates no t...



  • The Wayfarer is a story based upon an ancient legend of Taoist mystics who were known to appear whenever a people were suffering from oppression, disaster, or injustices from rulers. One such mystic in contemporary times was a spiritually powerful wo...









Award-Winning Books by James Welch

The Heartsong of Charging Elk
2001 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Welch has published 9 books.

James Welch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Heartsong, was published in September 2021.

The first book by James Welch, Winter in the Blood, was published in January 1975.

No. James Welch does not write books in series.