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LA Weekly Raises Doubts About Memoirist's Identity

By AAN Staff
january 30, 2006  01:59 pm
LA Weekly Raises Doubts About Memoirist's Identity
Nasdijj and his dog, Navajo
In an article published Jan. 26, LA Weekly's Matthew Fleisher called into question whether the Navajo memoirist Nasdijj is actually Timothy Barrus, a writer of gay pornographic fiction. The allegations come soon after similar stories about memoirist James Frey and novelist J.T. Leroy. Nasdijj is the author of Geronimo's Bones, The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, and The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping, which won a PEN/Beyond Margins award for racial and ethnic diversity.
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