Global InformationGary Jeshel Forrester information
Gary (Jeshel) Forrester | |
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 Forrester in Morrisonville, Illinois 2016 | |
| Born | 3 July 1946 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 |
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]
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]
- ^ a b c Latta, David, Australian Country Music (Random House Australia, 1991) ISBN 0-09- 182581-4.
- ^ a b c d e "Capital love letter: Renaissance man Gary Forrester turns back to the novel", FishHead: Wellington's Magazine, Issue 14, New Zealand, June 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Questionnaire: Jeshel Forrester", The Sunday Star-Times, 1 July 2018.
- ^ Houseboating in the Ozarks, Dufour Editions, 2006 ISBN 978-0802313416 (hardcover) ISBN 0802313418 (paperback).
- ^ Begotten, Not Made, University of Nebraska Press (2007) (extended extract appears in Scoring from Second, pp. 129–46 ISBN 0803259913).
- ^ The Connoisseur of Love, Steele Roberts, 2012 ISBN 9781877577727.
- ^ See, e.g., "Sitting Bull Hegira", South Dakota Review, The University of South Dakota, Fall 2007, p. 8.
- ^ See, e.g., "Unrequited", Poetry New Zealand, Vol. 36, February 2008.
- ^ See, e.g., "Mockingbird", Poetrywall, Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop, September 2007 ISBN 1-86942-095-0.
- ^ See, e.g., "Fleamarket", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
- ^ See, e.g., "Homo Sapiens Neandertalis", JAAM ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.
- ^ See, e.g., "The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
- ^ See, e.g., "Anna Searches for Her Son", Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology 2009.
- ^ All from The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).
- ^ A Kilgore Trout Moment, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN 0894-5993.
- ^ Tulips, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVI, No. 1, West Virginia University (2012), ISSN 0894-5993.
- ^ One Dog Barked, the Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer, Hardie Grant Books (Melbourne) 2023 ISBN 9781761450525; The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XLII, Supp. 1, West Virginia University (2018).
- ^ Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn, Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011 ISBN 978-1-932278-68-2.
- ^ As cited in the text of this article, Forrester lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1976–80, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983–85, at the University of Illinois from 2000–03, and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007–2013.
- ^ Dave Thorp as Metaphor, McLeods Booksellers Ltd., 2019 ISBN 978-0-473491-00-0.
- ^ "Telling stories in music", Rotorua Weekender, 2 December 2016, p. 13.
- ^ "Jeshel Forrester finds his meadowlark", The Sunday Star-Times, 25 February 2017.
- ^ Anderson, Stephen, "Gary Forrester's novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer", ISBA Bar News, Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006. ([1] Archived 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ "Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes, Rank Strangers", Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 22 September 1989, p. 2.
- ^ "Grand Ronde Reservation Plan" (Gary Forrester, Tribal Attorney), November 1985 (prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, pursuant to Public Law 98-165, 22 November 1983, Grand Ronde Restoration Act).
- ^ Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt, Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology, Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990), ISBN 083770684-X.
- ^ See, e.g., "Aboriginal Land Rights," Melbourne University Law Review, 1986; "U.S. Indian Legal Services," Australian Legal Services Bulletin, 1982; "The Himalaya," Melbourne University Law Review, 1978; "Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing," Melbourne University Summons, 1976; "Illinois' Capital Punishment Statute," University of Illinois Law Forum, 1975; "Recovery for Economic Loss," Melbourne University Summons, 1977; "The Credit Contract & Consumer Finance Act," New Zealand Lawyer, Issue 50, October 2006; "Know Your Rights," New Zealand Law Society Law Talk, Issue 671, July 2006; "Illinois' Respondents' in Discovery Statute – Federal Implications," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Summer 2005; "Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Winter 2001; "Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois," The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, Spring 2001; "The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act," Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 1, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002–2020; "Causes of Action – Consumer Actions," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002-2024; "Causes of Action – Common Considerations," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2002-2024; "Removal and Remand from Federal Court," Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 55, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2008–2020; "Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5/2-801 through 5/2-806," American Bar Association Class Action Survey, 2002–06 editions; "American Nightmare" (regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller), Pacific Ecologist, 2009, Issue 19.
- ^ Elkins, James, Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry, http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine.