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N Scott Momaday
(Navarre Scott Momaday)
(b.1934)N. Scott Momaday's baritone voice booms from any stage. The listener, whether at the United Nations in New York City or next to the radio at home, is transported through time, known as 'kairos"and space to Oklahoma near Carnegie, to the "sacred, red earth" of Momaday's tribe.
Born Feb. 27, 1934, Momaday's most famous book remains 1969's House Made of Dawn, the story of a Pueblo boy torn between the modern and traditional worlds, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and was honored by his tribe. He is a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society. He is also a Regents Professor of Humanities at the University of Arizona, and has published other novels, memoir, plays and poetry. He's been called the dean of American Indian writers, and he has influenced other contemporary Native American writers from Paula Gunn Allen to Louise Erdrich.
Momaday views his writings, published in various books over the years, as one continuous story. Influences on his writing include literature of America and Europe and the stories of the Kiowa and other tribal peoples.
Born Feb. 27, 1934, Momaday's most famous book remains 1969's House Made of Dawn, the story of a Pueblo boy torn between the modern and traditional worlds, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and was honored by his tribe. He is a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society. He is also a Regents Professor of Humanities at the University of Arizona, and has published other novels, memoir, plays and poetry. He's been called the dean of American Indian writers, and he has influenced other contemporary Native American writers from Paula Gunn Allen to Louise Erdrich.
Momaday views his writings, published in various books over the years, as one continuous story. Influences on his writing include literature of America and Europe and the stories of the Kiowa and other tribal peoples.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Journey of Tai-Me (1967)
House Made of Dawn (1968)
The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground (1969)
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Bringing on the Indians (1971)
A First American Views His Land (1976)
The Colors of Night (1976)
Discovering the Land of Light (1985)
On Bavarian Byways (1986)
Ancient Child (1989)
Storyteller (1992)
In the Bear's House (1999)
House Made of Dawn (1968)
The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground (1969)
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Bringing on the Indians (1971)
A First American Views His Land (1976)
The Colors of Night (1976)
Discovering the Land of Light (1985)
On Bavarian Byways (1986)
Ancient Child (1989)
Storyteller (1992)
In the Bear's House (1999)
Collections
Angle of Geese and Other Poems (poems) (1974)
The Gourd Dancer (poems) (1976)
In the Presence of the Sun (1992)
The Man Made of Words (1997)
Again the Far Morning (poems) (2011)
Meditations (poems) (2016) (with Yuri Vaella)
The Death of Sitting Bear (poems) (2020)
Dream Drawings (2022)
The Gourd Dancer (poems) (1976)
In the Presence of the Sun (1992)
The Man Made of Words (1997)
Again the Far Morning (poems) (2011)
Meditations (poems) (2016) (with Yuri Vaella)
The Death of Sitting Bear (poems) (2020)
Dream Drawings (2022)
Plays show
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
N Scott Momaday recommends
I Knew You'd Be Lovely (2011)
Alethea Black
"When I came to the end I wanted to read the next page - or write it - but then I realized that there was no more to be said; as in the Navajo prayer, 'In beauty it is finished.'"
Books containing stories by N Scott Momaday
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 13)
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
The Best of the West (1991)
An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West
edited by
Tony Hillerman
Awards
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