THE SHORT STORY

Nonfiction writer and occasional critic Steve Hendricks has written for many publications, including DoubleTake, The Nation, Orion, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Montana Public Radio. The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country is his first book. He is at work on a second, for W. W. Norton, about American terrorism. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

THE LONGER STORY

Steve was born in Arkansas, raised in Texas, and educated at Yale. After college, he spent several years in Seattle and Montana, where he divided his time between writing about politics and doing politics. Neither paid worth a damn. He has twice run for local office, in Helena, Montana, and twice lost. (The first time was close; the second, he got clobbered.) Since then he has focused on writing. He wishes he wrote as well as A. J. Liebling.

He began researching Indian issues several years before starting on The Unquiet Grave because he was disturbed by the grim neglect that prevails in much of Indian Country. After reading Peter Matthiessen’s monumental In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), Steve wondered what had been uncovered about the struggle between the FBI and the American Indian Movement in the years since. The short answer: not much. He decided to write The Unquiet Grave to fill part of the void.

Steve is married to Jennifer Hendricks, associate professor of law at the University of Tennessee. They moved from Montana to Knoxville in 2005 with their young son.

© 2006-2009 Steve Hendricks

Steve Hendricks
© 2006 Jennifer Hendricks