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Rebecca Clarren

Rebecca Clarren has written about the American West for more than 20 years and received the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on The Cost of Free Land. Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship and 10 grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in Mother Jones, High Country News, The Nation and Indian Country Today. Clarren’s 2018 novel, Kickdown, was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize.

Featured title: The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

Website: https://www.rebecca-clarren.com/


REBECCA’S EVENTS:

  • Friday, Sept. 20 @ 2:00 p.m.The Stolen Beam: How Descendants of Homesteaders Can Respond to America’s Dispossession of Native Lands – The Oscar, Founders Recital Hall (101A), Brookings
  • Friday, Sept. 22 @ 4:30 p.m. Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings

View the full schedule here!