Robert also wrote the novelization of a screenplay, Geronimo: An American Legend which was published in the U.S. Since that time he has had over 70 books published, a collection of short stories, several reprints, including 3 British editions, and several books on tape. His first novel, Back to Malachi, was published in 1986. The poem was commissioned by the Iowa State Department of Transportation and published on a permanent display board at the mound site near Dubuque. Robert's most unusual publication may be the poem, Some Lines in Commemeration of this site: Little Maquoketa River Mounds, May 15, 1981. His poems have been published in English, Cherokee, German, French and Macedonian versions. His poems and short stories have been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies over the years, including some in Germany, France, Belgium, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Robert has also been an Associate Professor of English at Morningside College and an Instructor of English at Southwest Missouri State University and at Northern Illinois University. Programs manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Director of Indian Studies at Eastern Montana College, Bacone College in Muskogee and at Morningside College in Sioux City. After finishing high school in Wichita Falls, TX, he attended college there at Midwestern University where he received his bachelor's degree in drama in 1966 and his master's in English in 1968. Conley, Cherokee, was born in Cushing, OK.
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