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John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been a part of the European-American migration, as well as the Indigenous peoples whom they ...
Born on January 8, 1881, in Sharpsburg, Illinois, to Nicholas and Alice Neihardt, 11-year-old John Neihardt moved to Wayne, Nebraska, in 1891, with his mother and two sisters. He had also lived in a sod house in northwestern Kansas and in the Missouri River town of Kansas City.
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Neihardt’s life and legacy. Author of Black Elk Speaks, Cycle of the West, and numerous other works of prose and poetry, John G. Neihardt is the Poet Laureate in Perpetuity of Nebraska.
A visionary thinker with keen spiritual insight, John Neihardt left us a rich inheritance of wisdom and a legacy of understanding. He was the author of some twenty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and philosophy.
5 mag 2012 · Così John G. Neihardt, nella prefazione al suo splendido libro, Alce Nero parla (un’opera sfaccettata e complessa, a metà tra saggio, racconto, confessione personale e viaggio in una dimensione sconosciuta), descrive il primo incontro con questo anziano sciamano Sioux Lakota della famiglia Oglala, che a soli nove anni di età ha ...
Nell’estate del 1931, per giorni e giorni, seduto all’aperto tra una capanna di tronchi e una tenda sacra, alla presenza di alcuni vecchi compagni, Alce Nero raccontò i suoi ricordi a John Neihardt, appassionato rievocatore della storia del West.
Across the Spectrum: The Interdisciplinary Life and Letters of John G. Neihardt provides an extensive searchable digital archive of Neihardt’s collected professional and personal letters along with previously uncollected essays and reviews.
