The education of little tree-- biography of the author; characterization, short summary of the novel

THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE
AUTHOR: Forrest Carter (1925 - 1979) Foreword by Rennard Strickland
Forrest Carter was born on September the 4th in 1925, in Oxford, Alabama as Asa Earl Carter (also known as "Ace" Carter).
Asa Carter was the eldest of four children, he had two brothers and a sister, and their parents rose all in Oxford, Alabama as well. Carter's father lived at least long enough to purchase a farm on which the adult Asa Carter's family lived - he visited on weekends from his work in Montgomery, and his mother outlived him by nearly 20 years.
Asa carter attended the local…