Name Johnny Payne Role Dramatist | Education Stanford University | |
Books Kentuckiana, She‑Calf and Other Quechua, North of Patagonia, Conquest of the new word, Second Chance | ||
Johnny payne fun or fame 2003
Johnny Payne is a dramatist, novelist, scholar, and has been a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus. He has been head of a Northwestern University Latin American Studies program in Cusco, Peru.
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Payne received his bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature at Indiana University and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alabama. He completed his PhD at Stanford University.
Payne conducted fieldwork in the Quechua highlands of Peru and has published two books from this research. Cuentos cusqueños is a dual language text, in both Quechua and Spanish, and gives stories told by several Quechua native speakers. She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales is a translation of Quechua folktales into English.
Payne also wrote the novel Kentuckiana.