Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.^ James L. White was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1936. At the age of sixteen, he began his training as a classical ballet dancer and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater School. He danced for ten years in America and Germany. After his dance career, he attended universities in Indiana and Colorado, and then taught among Navajo tribes in New Mexico and Arizona. White came to Minnesota to develop a creative writing program for Chippewa children through the Minnesota Writers in the Schools Program. He was the author of four books of poetry: Divorce Proceedings (1972), A Crow's Story of Deer (1974), The Del Rio Hotel (1975), and The Salt Ecstasies (1982). In 1978, White was awarded the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Poetry. He lived in Minneapolis until his death from heart disease in 1981.