Ceremony has received consideration as an example of American nature writing as well; in his influential 1995 book,
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, Lawrence Buell declared
Ceremony "one of the major works of contemporary American environmental fiction."
Ceremony was followed by Storyteller (1981), a multigenre autobiography; The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright (1986); the controversial apocalyptic novel Almanac of the Dead (1991); Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures (1993), a handmade volume of prose poems and photographs; an essay collection, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (1996); and Gardens in the Dunes (1999), an historical novel. Currently, Silko is at work on a satirical novel with the working title "Blue Sevens, or Protect Yourself from Witchcraft While You Get Rich." The variety and breadth of Silko's writing have established her as one of the most creative and versatile of living American writers. Her work is widely known and respected in Europe as well, where she is considered a major American author, rather than an ethnic writer, as she is most often categorized in the United States.
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