N. Scott Momaday

Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a Native American of the Kiowa people. His early life and education happened on Navajo, Apache, and Jemez Pueblo reservations. He went to college at the University of New Mexico. He got his masters and doctoral degrees at Stanford University.

In 1969 his first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He received the National Medal of Arts in November 2007. In 2019 he was given the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] the natural world as a sacred space and [telling] us that humans are a part of, not apart from that world."

Momaday's writing often mixes up fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. In The Way to Rainy Mountain, he uses "Kiowa tribal and private stories, history and descriptions of the land, and drawings."

His books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, and Spanish.

Books
The Journey of Tai-me (1967), folklore
House Made of Dawn (1968), novel
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), folklore
The Gourd Dancer (1976), poetry
The Names: A Memoir (1976), memoir
The Ancient Child (1989), novel
In the Presence of the Sun (1992), stories and poetry
The Native Americans: Indian County (1993)
Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story (1994), children's book
The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (1997), stories and essays
In the Bear's House (1999), mixed media
Four Arrows & Magpie: A Kiowa Story (2006), children's book
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (2007), plays
Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems (2011), poetry
The Death of Sitting Bear (2020), poetry
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land (2020), poetry

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America
References

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Category:American poets
Category:Writers from Oklahoma
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