During the early 1970s -- the emergent years of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the "Native American Renaissance" -- Leslie Marmon Silko was perhaps the movement's preeminent writer of short fiction. She had also published a collection of highly regarded...

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the most important writers to emerge from the Native American Renaissance, a period of intense literary productivity by Native Americans that began with the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...

Despite that her most successful work is an early one, Leslie Marmon Silko remains a central voice in Native American literature. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), is taught in colleges and universities around the world. Scholarship on her body of work c...

Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko - 1977 Introduction Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony (1977) is a literary landmark. One of the first contemporary female Native American novelists, Silko was at the forefront of the explosion of Native American...

Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and florists prepared Thursday for the first memorial ceremonies honoring former President Gerald R. Ford.A military honor guard and band rehearsed crisp rituals at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, where Ford's family will have a private prayer service Friday before a public...

David Letterman says it will be convenient having a building named after him at his alma mater. "Forget your name _ just check the building," he said. That was part of a Top-10 list the talk-show host and Ball State University graduate read Friday during...

Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar were married Friday in a traditional Hindu ceremony at Umaid Bhavan Palace. It was the second wedding for the couple in a week."We will be doing Hindu rituals, and they will walk around a holy fire seven times," said a...

A two-week lavish wedding celebration for the daughter of Brunei's sultan _ one of the world's richest men _ culminated Sunday in a ceremony steeped in the royal tradition of this tiny, oil-rich nation.Princess Majeedah Nuurul Bulqiah, 31, and Khairul Khalil, 32, exchanged their vows...