Spur-Best Western Short Fiction 1988 Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography, in The Witch of Goingsnake. Robert is the Featured Author during January 2001 on the ReadWest website. The Cherokee Nation: A History was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year. The medal was presented at an awards ceremony in the state capitol. Selections from reviews of Robert's books Writing available online On Holding A Pre-Columbian Clay Figure The Caretaker Dlanusi AwardsĬherokee Medicine Man was a 2007 nominee for the Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma competition. He now lives in Norman, Oklahoma with his wife, Evelyn, where he writes full time.Ī short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Author's Project is available. He is an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. In 1997 Robert was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame. by Pocketbooks and reprinted in translation in Italy.Ĭonley is a member of the Western Writers of America and has won 2 Spur awards for his novels Nickajack and The Dark Island and another Spur award for his short story Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography, published in The Witch of Goingsnake. Robert also wrote the novelization of a screenplay, Geronimo: An American Legend which was published in the U.S. Since that time he has had over 70 books published, a collection of short stories, several reprints, including 3 British editions, and several books on tape. His first novel, Back to Malachi, was published in 1986. The poem was commissioned by the Iowa State Department of Transportation and published on a permanent display board at the mound site near Dubuque. Robert's most unusual publication may be the poem, Some Lines in Commemeration of this site: Little Maquoketa River Mounds, May 15, 1981. His poems have been published in English, Cherokee, German, French and Macedonian versions.
His poems and short stories have been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies over the years, including some in Germany, France, Belgium, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Robert has also been an Associate Professor of English at Morningside College and an Instructor of English at Southwest Missouri State University and at Northern Illinois University. Programs manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Director of Indian Studies at Eastern Montana College, Bacone College in Muskogee and at Morningside College in Sioux City. After finishing high school in Wichita Falls, TX, he attended college there at Midwestern University where he received his bachelor's degree in drama in 1966 and his master's in English in 1968. Conley, Cherokee, was born in Cushing, OK.
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