The Ancient Child Summary
N. Scott Momaday

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The Ancient Child Summary

The Ancient Child is a masterful reworking of a traditional Kiowa tale about a boy’s metamorphosis into a bear. Transposed by N. Scott Momaday into modern times, the tale becomes that of a tortured artist—Locke Setman—caught between the Kiowa world of his heritage and the urban, sophisticated world he inhabits as an internationally-renown artist living in San Francisco, where he was raised by his adoptive father, Bent. Because...

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N. Scott Momaday Biographies (6)

N. Scott Momaday

1,741 words, approx. 6 pages

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 distingu... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

5,018 words, approx. 17 pages

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 o... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

13 words, approx. 1 pages

"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,205 words, approx. 25 pages

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 nov... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,957 words, approx. 27 pages

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... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

9,739 words, approx. 33 pages

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 fi... Read more

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