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...

"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...

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...

N. Scott Momaday is the dean of American Indian authors. (Indians, especially in Oklahoma and the Southwest, use the term Indian. Academics are the ones who chiefly use Native American.) Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn (1968) began the renaissance...

Dubbed "the man made of words," N. Scott Momaday is a Native American poet, novelist, storyteller, and artist. "It is an identity that pleases me," the author wrote in the preface to In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991. "In a...

N. Scott Momaday (born 1934) is recognized as one of the premier writers in the United States. In 1969, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction. One of the most distinguished Native-American authors writing today, N....