William Apess's ordination as a minister in the Protestant Methodist Church preceded by only a few months the publication of his A Son of the Forest (1829), the first published autobiography -- and one of the earliest books of any genre wholly written...

One of the most important Native American writers of the nineteenth century, William Apess has only recently begun to emerge from historical and literary obscurity. His autobiography, A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apess, A Native of...

William Apess (1798-1839)was the first Native American to write and publish his own autobiography, A Son in the Forest, and was the most prolific nineteenth century Indian writer in the English language. He internalized the values of the conquering...

"I thought it was a very pretty notion to be a man .... " --William Apess, A Son of the Forest (14) In his "Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk," Timothy Sweet notes that critics such as Paula...

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