Tommy Orange

Bestselling Novelist & Pulitzer-Nominated Author

Tommy Orange is the author of the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated, There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about the lives of urban Native Americans. An American Book Award (2019) winner and Pulitzer Prize (2019) finalist, There There shows us violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. His newest work, NYT Bestseller, Wandering Stars, traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Tommy Orange was born, raised and currently resides in Oakland, California.

“Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again – a masterwork that will not be forgotten.” – Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez