The Education Of Little Tree by Forrest Carter.
Published: New York: Delacorte Press/E. Friede 1976
Set in the Appalachian
mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression, The education of Little
Tree was purported to be the memoir an orphaned young boy, raised by his
grandparents in the Native American Cherokee way of life. His idyllic childhood
is soon shattered when he’s taken away by whites to an orphanage where he
suffers beatings and racial taunts. The authenticity of the book was called
into question when it was revealed that Forrest Carter was actually Asa Earl
Carter, a strong segregationist and suspected member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Sources
Cover image: Goodreads
Citation: Novelist.
Annotation: Novelist, Fantastic Fiction, MagillOnLiterature
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