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Hale, Janet Campbell (Coeur d'Alene)

Hale's work examines the social, psychological, and economic dimensions the Native American experience. Her essays and autobiographical fiction delineate reservation life, the adverse effects of poverty and alcoholism on families, and the struggle of Native Americans to maintain a sense of identity in contemporary American society. For example, Hale's first novel, The Owl's Song, focuses on a Native American boy who, after enduring an alcoholic father and his cousin's suicide, moves from his Idaho reservation to an urban setting where he is mistreated by his schoolmates. The Jailing of Cecelia Capture, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, is the story of a young Native woman who is jailed for drunk driving and welfare fraud.

Hale was raised on the Colville and Yakima Indian reservations of the Coeur d'Alene in Washington, moving frequently as her mother tried to elude her abusive, alcoholic husband. These early experiences fueled Hale's desire to become literate as she sought refuge in reading and writing: "I wrote poetry, stories, essays because of a deep personal need." Hale's marriage at sixteen resulted in divorce one year later, and these hardships-marriage, divorce, and single parenthood-figure prominently in her work. Hale received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974 and attended law school at Berkeley and Gonzaga Law School in Spokane, Washington. She received an M.A. in English from the University of California, Davis, in 1984 and began a career as visiting writer and lecturer. Critics marvel at Hale's accomplishments in light of the disadvantages she experienced, and Hale herself attributes her ability to surmount them to her Coeur d'Alene heritage, stating: "Courage has been bred into you. It's in your blood." - Essay by Linda Cullum

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