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...

I was reading in bed in the morning, something I like to do, something I try to do every thirty days, two or three hours, usually on a Sunday, reading in bed in the morning is not like reading at any other hour-first thing!-your...

Shirley Rike of Lewisburg has a guardian angel. Rike has had heart problems and Taffy Lynn, her 6-year-old yellow Labrador retriever adopted from the Greater Dayton Labrador Retriever Rescue, is her service dog. "She follows me everywhere; she's allowed to fly on the...