Stew Magnuson

Omaha native and UNL journalism graduate, Magnuson covered the Whiteclay unrest and controversy for the Christian Science Monitor. His 2008 book The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns was the Nebraska Center for the Book's 2009 non-fiction book of the year, and received recognition from the Center for Great Plains Studies and ForeWord magazine. Magnuson is Managing Editor for National Defense magazine. He has his own website.

At the end of his book, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, Magnuson acknowledges the "self-taught historians" who "inspired me every step of the way." He lists these as Mari Sandoz, George Hyde, Amos Bad Heart Bull, and Will Spindler.

See also, for Native American subjects: Joe Starita, David Wishart, John R. Wunder and Alan Boye.

dsc

Places Lived

Nebraska
Tokyo, JAPAN
Southeast Asia
Arlington, VA

Author Of

Journalism
Nonfiction

Keywords

Nebraska subjects; Native Americans

Education

Omaha Central High School, Omaha, NE
Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, 1987, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Occupation

Magazine Editor

Places Worked

Christian Science Monitor

Honors

Nebraska 150 Books Honor, 2017, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska Pine Ridge Border Towns
Nebraska Nonfiction Book of the Year, Nebraska Center for the Book, 2009, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska Pine Ridge Border Towns
Finalist, Great Plains Book of the Year, Center for Great Plains Studies, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska Pine Ridge Border Towns
Finalist Texas Book of the Year, The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska Pine Ridge Border Towns

Bibliography

The Song of Sarin. 2003.
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns. 2008.
Wounded Knee, 1973: Still Bleeding. 2013.
Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas. 2014.
The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma. 2015.
The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: Texas. 2017.

We appreciate corrections and additions to our information about authors, but please read the following guidelines and caveats carefully.

The Nebraska Authors database is based on publicly available sources. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information. We cannot include unsourced information in the database.
We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database.
To include an image on an author profile, please send jpg attachment to nebraskaauthors@lincoln.ne.gov. A photo-release agreement is required before the image will be published on this site.
Because of the way we are staffed, expect corrections or additions to take time, sometimes up to three months.
While we initially included some actual links to external URLs in the database, we will in the future no longer provide functioning links. We will instead record the presence of specific external materials in language that we hope will help intelligent users find it themselves. Web rot, in which actual materials remain online but undergo changes in their URLs, is too demanding in terms of staff time for us to hope to keep external links current.

Please copy, fill out the form below, and email it to heritage@lincoln.ne.gov to suggest a change.