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Joseph A. Fitzgerald’s life and work
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This site includes Joseph A. Fitzgerald’s biography, photos, online articles, links, and more.
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Joseph Fitzgerald has authored or edited several books on diverse world religions and philosophy that have won more than ten awards, including the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. The subjects include Buddhism, Hinduism, the American Indians, Christianity, the ecological crisis and the Perennial Philosophy. Fitzgerald holds an Honor’s Degree in Religious Studies from Indiana University, with Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude distinctions, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University with Magna Cum Laude distinction.
Fitzgerald’s love of the American Indians was nurtured from his earliest memories, as he attended sacred rites of the Plains Indians for the first time before he could walk. At four years of age he was adopted into the Crow tribe and the family of Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the past century. Yellowtail was to provide Fitzgerald and his parents with introductions to many spiritual leaders of other American Indian tribes; thus Fitzgerald has spent extended periods of time over more than thirty years visiting traditional cultures and attending sacred ceremonies throughout the American West, including the sacred rites of the Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Shoshone, Bannock, and Apache Tribes. These experiences led to the publication of his fully illustrated and revised edition of George Bird Grinnell’s classic work The Cheyenne Indians.
All royalties for Fitzgerald’s books on American Indians are donated to various American Indian charities, including the support of Crow, Shoshone and Lakota Sun Dances and to provide books and films to tribal colleges and high schools located on Indian reservations throughout the US and Canada.
Fitzgerald was home schooled until he entered Indiana University at age fourteen. This allowed him the opportunity for more than twenty years to travel extensively throughout the Oriental world, including visits to India, Bhutan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal, and Japan, and the Islamic World, including visits to Morocco, Niger, Iran, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Syria and Xinxiang, China. These experiences led to the publication of The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma and three books on Buddhism.
The Fitzgerald family provides ongoing financial contributions that include underwriting Crow language textbooks for the Crow Language Consortium and the establishment of a permanent endowment for the Language Conservancy with the Bloomington Community Foundation.
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Books edited by Joseph Fitzgerald
- Spirit of the Indian Warrior, co-edited with Michael Fitzgerald, 2019
- Silver Medal in the “Interior Design” category of the 2020 Midwest Book Awards
- Silver Medal in the “History/General” category of the 2020 Midwest Book Awards
- Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature, co-edited with Michael Fitzgerald (May 2017)
- Winner in the “Multicultural Non-Fiction” category of the 2018 Best Book Awards
- Finalist in the “Best Interior Design” category of the 2018 Best Book Awards
- Finalist in the “Spirituality: Inspirational” category of the 2018 Best Book Awards
- Silver Medal in the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the category “Body, Mind & Spirit”
- Finalist in the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the category “Nature”
- Gold Medal in the “Religion/Philosophy/Spirituality” category of the 2018 Midwest Book Awards
- Silver Medal winner in the “Gift Book” category of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Book of the Year Awards
- World of the Teton Sioux Indians: Their Music, Life, and Culture, by Frances Densmore (September 2016)
- Winner in the “Multicultural: Non-Fiction” category of the 2016 USA “Best Book” Awards
- Silver Medal in the “History” category of the 2016 Midwest Book Awards
- The Original Gospel of Ramakrishna:
Based on M.’s English Text, Abridged, 2011.
- The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy: Selected Reflections on Indian Art, Life, and Religion by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, co-edited with S. Durai Raja Singam (November 2011).
- An Illustrated Introduction to Taoism (author: Jean C. Cooper)
- Winner of two USA "Best Books 2011" Awards, sponsored by USA Book News:
– “Religion: Eastern Religions” category
– “Best Interior Design” category (designed by Susana Marin)
- Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for “New Age/Metaphysics/Spirituality”
- Midwest Book Award Silver Medals in the categories:
“Illustration”, “3 or More Color Cover”, & “Total Book Design”
- Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize
- Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Award
- Silver Benjamin Franklin Best Book Award for “Interior Design, 3 or More Color”
- Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion (author: Lord Northbourne)
- A Christian Woman's Secret: A Modern-Day Journey to God (author: Lilian Staveley)
- The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, Edited and Illustrated (author: George Bird Grinnell)
- Midwest Book Gold Award for “Culture”
- Midwest Book Gold Award for “Political Science/History”
- Midwest Book Silver Award for “Interior Layout”
- Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for “Interior Design, 3 or More Color”
- Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for “Multicultural”
- ForeWord Book of the Year finalist for “History”
- The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teaching of a 20th Century Indian Saint
- Honen the Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography
- The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, & Tradition (author: Marco Pallis)
Contributions by Joseph A. Fitzgerald to other World Wisdom books:
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“The Fitzgerald Family”, a profile published by the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County can be found by clicking here.
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A page on The Lotus-Fitzgerald Endowment describes more of Fitzgerald's charitable work.
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