| 词条 | Harry Lawton |
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| image = Writer HL in 2002.jpg | name = Harry Lawton | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Harry Wilson Lawton | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|11|}} | birth_place = Long Beach, California, US | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|11|20|1927|12|11}} | death_place = Dana Point, California, US | occupation = Author, novelist, journalist, editor }}Harry Wilson Lawton (December 11, 1927 – November 20, 2005) was an American writer, journalist, editor and historian who wrote several books about Native Americans in California.[1] One of them, Willie Boy: a Desert Manhunt, was made into a movie in 1969, by the title Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford.[2] Early lifeLawton was born on December 11, 1927 in Long Beach, California. He enrolled at University of California, Berkeley after high school. There he wrote for the college newspapers and magazines. Lawton opened the Haunted Bookstore in Berkeley, which specialized in rare Western Americana. He was also a reporter, and while working at The Press-Enterprise, he heard about the Last Great Manhunt of the Old West.[3] Willie BoyThe Last Great Manhunt was a 1909 story about Willie Boy,[4] a Paiute-Chemehuevi Indian who falls in love with his distant cousin, Carlota Boniface. Although the couple were madly in love, the marriage is forbidden by Carlota's father, Old Mike, the tribe's shaman. Desperate, Willie Boy kills Old Mike and runs away with Carlota into the California Desert. In the end, Carlota is shot to death and Willie Boy commits suicide. Lawton's Willie Boy: a Desert Manhunt won several awards for best non-fiction novel, and was later made into a movie, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here in 1969.[5][6] It was precisely based on interviews and research[7] the author did on the Morongo Indian Reservation during three years before the publishing of the book.[8] WorkRespected by his fellow writers, Lawton always believed in the preservation of the American Indian community. He helped found the California Museum of Photography; the Malki Museum, which was the first American Indian Museum established at a California reservation; and the Malki Press, a non-profit organization responsible for publishing books about the Native Americans in California. At University of California he created the Creative Writing Program,[9] and the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. He was also an advocate for the preservation and archeological exploration of Riverside's Chinatown.[10] and served as the historian on the Great Basin Foundation's archaeological dig at the former Chinatown site in Riverside, California.[11] Through this involvement on the project, Lawton compiled an extensive collection of research material pertaining to the early Chinese immigrants that settled in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.[11] That research collection was donated to the University of California, Riverside. Lawton died on November 20, 2005 in Dana Point, California.[12] Personal lifeBehind the scenes, Lawton was also a philanthropist. Besides contributing to the preservation of California history, he was passionate about issues related to dyslexia and ADHD. Lawton was a supporter of the Democratic Party and human rights, and he was opposed to war, prejudice, and intolerance. He was a contributor to the American Cancer Society, AMFAR, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Greenpeace, and the ASPCA, although he always preferred anonymity. Lawton is the father of Hollywood film director, writer and producer J. F. Lawton and father-in-law of journalist, writer and LGBT activist Paola Lawton.[13] See also
References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/12/06/harry_lawton_77_wrote_of_american_indians|title=Harry Lawton, 77; wrote of American Indians|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=December 6, 2005}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/48983/Tell-Them-Willie-Boy-Is-Here/overview|title=Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here|publisher=The New York Times|year=1969 | first=Roger | last=Greenspun | accessdate=May 4, 2010}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Harry W. Lawton, 77; was Author, Historian and former Journalist| author=Dennis Mclellan (May 12, 2005)| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/05/local/me-lawton5| publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=December 5, 2005 | accessdate=May 4, 2010}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://mojavedesert.net/chemehuevi-indians/willie-boy.html |title=The Willie Boy Story |publisher=Mojave Desert Gazette |date=April 16, 2009}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0065079|title=Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=February 2, 2006}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173EA22CAA494CC2B779958D6896|author=Roger Greenspan (12-19-1969)|title=Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here|publisher=The New York Times}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/19042.html|title=Historians in the News|publisher=History News Network|date=June 12, 2005|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809195909/http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/19042.html|archivedate=August 9, 2009|df=mdy-all}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://scotty.ucr.edu/search~S5/?searchtype=c&searcharg=collection+152&searchscope=5&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=1&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=ccollection+254|title=Harry Lawton Collection on Willie Boy|publisher=University of California Riverside}} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://creativewriting.ucr.edu/writersweek/WW30/creative_writing.html |title=Creative Writing Program |publisher=UCR |date=October 6, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://riversideca.gov/LIBRARY/history_aids_lawton.asp | title=Harry Lawton Riverside Chinatown Papers|publisher=Riversideca.gov}} 11. ^1 {{cite web|title=Guide to the Harry W. Lawton collection on Chinese in California|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c88c9x7h/|publisher=University of California Riverside Libraries|accessdate=November 16, 2013}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Harry Lawton, 77, Journalist and author, is dead|author=The Associated Press (July 12, 2005)|url=http://nytimes.com/2005/12/07/arts/07lawton.html|publisher=The New York Times | date=December 7, 2005 | accessdate=May 4, 2010}} 13. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493368/bio|title=Harry Lawton|publisher=IMDb|date=March 13, 2012}} Further readingArchival Resources
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