Stephen Graham Jones


Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Although his recent work is often classified as horror, he is celebrated for applying more "literary" stylings to a variety of speculative genres, as well as his prolificacy, having published 22 books under the age of 50.
Jones has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in fiction, and the Bram Stoker Award.

Themes and style

Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor, who wrote the praise for Jones's debut The Fast Red Road. Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes his work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."
Other scholars such as Joseph Gaudet have cited his writing as "post-ironic" or representative of David Foster Wallace's "New Sincerity," a literary approach "emerging in response to the cynicism, detachment, and alienation that many saw as defining the postmodern canon," seeking instead "to more patently embrace morality, sincerity, and an 'ethos of belief.' His eighth novel, Ledfeather, which Jones himself has acknowledged as being the most widely taught of his books, is used as Gaudet's primary example. Mongrels too has been included as an example since its publication in 2016.

Selected works

;Books
;Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones
;Stories