Gary Jeshel Forrester
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Gary (Jeshel) Forrester (born 3 July 1946) is a musician,[1][2][3] composer,[1][2][3] novelist,[2][4][5][6][3] poet,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][3] short-story writer,[15][16] biographer,[17] memoirist,[18] academic,[19] and historian[20] based in Rotoiti Forest, New Zealand.[21][22] He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s,[1] and in New Zealand by FishHead: Wellington's Magazine as a "modern Renaissance man."[2] In a 2018 interview with New Zealand's leading newspaper, Forrester was described by the Sunday Star-Times as "a Native American descendant, on his mother's side ... who settled in New Zealand in 2006. [He is] a published author and poet and has released three solo albums in the past three years."[3]
Gary (Jeshel) Forrester | |
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Born | (1946-07-03) 3 July 1946 (age 77) Decatur, Illinois, U.S. |
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Genre | Novels, poetry, short stories, memoirs, bluegrass |
Literary movement | Metamodernism |
Children | Sam Harding Forrester, Joseph Harding Forrester, Lucy Jeshel McCallum, Georgette Brown (step-daughter), Charlotte Rose Forrester, Haz Forrester |
According to Fishhead, in addition to his teaching fellowship lecturing in legal ethics at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School from 2008 to 2016, Forrester had published "three novels and a book of poems, [was] a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children."[2] He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980, at the Northwestern School of Law in Oregon from 1983 to 1985, at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992, at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003,[23] and (as noted) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2008 to 2016.
Beginning in the 1980s, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress;[24][25] authored a text on American Indian law;[26][3] and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, civil procedure, and other legal topics.[27]
Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."[28]