Ku Klux Klan member an author?

[Ruth Rogers <CRVHS_RSR@NCOCC.OHIO.GOV>]

One of our teachers recently read the book, THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE
by Forrest Carter.  Here is what she says:
  " A treasure of a book!  I used it with my L.D. 11th and 12th grade
students and they published a newspaper which could have been circulated
at that setting, West about 1930.  Grandparents, Indians who live in the
mountains, adopt a 5-year-old boy.  It is funny, educational, moving and
written beautifully.  It is also available on tape, condensed, narrated
by Capote."  She highly recommends the book.
Her question is this:  Was Forrest Carter, the author, ever a member of
the Lu Klux Klan?  Someone told her that he was and she was just
incredulous.  Can any of you answer her question?  I told her that if
anyone would know it would be the LM_NETTERS!  Thanks:-)
Ruth Rogers - job title in limbo, but you may refer to me as a
              library/media specialist
Crestview High School
Ashland, OH
CRVHS_RSR@NCOCC.OHIO.GOV