Jarold Ramsey

JAROLD RAMSEY was born in central Oregon and grew up on his family’s ranch there. He left the ranch to attend college, and became an award-winning essayist and poet, as well as a published playwright and a respected authority on traditional American Indian literature. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and the author of several books. In 2017, he received the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award for lifetime achievement from Literary Arts. He lives in Madras, Oregon.

Books by this Author

Words Marked by a Place

Words Marked by a Place is a book of interconnected writings reflecting on the human and natural history of central Oregon. This chronological collection presents...

| paperback | $21.95

The Stories We Tell

This first anthology of Oregon folk literature bears a special relationship to the other five volumes in the Oregon Literature Series. For collected here are...

| paperback | $24.95

New Era

New Era is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert, focusing on what...

| paperback | $14.95

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