Oliver La Farge was born in New York City in 1901. In 1925 he traveled with the archaeologist Frans Blom to the Olmec heartland in Mexico, where he rediscovered the ruins of La Venta.
His novels include Laughing Boy (1929), Sparks Fly Upward (1931) and The Enemy Gods (1937). He served in the U.S. Air Transport Command in World War II, ending as a major, and was for several years president of the Association on American Indian Affairs. He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1963.
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