In 1969, the same year that N. Scott Momaday began his tenure as associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn (1968), published his aut...

"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: Northern New Mexico'...

When N. Scott Momaday received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), the literary community recognized the arrival of a major contemporary Native American writer; the event marked the beginning of what Kennet...

Momaday, N. Scott. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 143 pp. $17.95 cloth. illustrations by N. Scott Momaday. In the Presence of the Sun contains four main sections. "Selected Poems" opens the book with twenty-nine previously published works, and "New Poems" closes...

DEAD POETS never sound quite the same as they did when alive. We approach a completed body of work very differently than we do the latest installment of an oeuvre stir emerging. Fresh implications and shadings jump off a page regarded posthumously, while...