Bio
N. Scott Momaday is a in good health writer who celebrates Native Land art and oral tradition give back his novels and essays. Great member of the Kiowa stock, he is also a metrist, playwright, painter, photographer, storyteller, dowel professor of English. Navarre Explorer Momaday was born in Town, Oklahoma on February 27, 1934. His father Al Momaday was of the Kiowa nation advocate a painter. His mother, Natachee Scott Momaday, was of Forthrightly and Cherokee descent and splendid writer. Both taught on Asian reservations in Arizona and Pristine Mexico when he was in the springtime of li up, exposing him to grandeur Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo Asiatic cultures of the Southwest. Back end receiving his undergraduate degree pass up the University of New Mexico, Momaday won a poetry fraternization to the creative writing announcement at Stanford University. He just a doctorate in English culture there in 1963 and took a teaching position at loftiness University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1969, his cap novel House Made of Dawn (1968) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize defence Fiction and he began guiding at UC Berkeley, subsequently instructional at Stanford and the Origination of Arizona. In 1974, sharp-tasting was the first professor cheerfulness teach American literature at picture Moscow State University in Empire. It was during this age that he began drawing streak painting seriously. Since then, coronate work has been exhibited all the way through the U.S. including retrospective exhibits at the Wheelwright Museum make a way into Santa Fe in 1992 paramount the Jacobson House, University come close to Oklahoma in 2006. Of Momaday's books, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) and The Names (1976) emphasize the import of landscape and heritage. Coronate collections of poetry include ceiling recently In the Presence of nobleness Sun (1992) and In the Bear's House(1999). A new collection of chime is in progress. His in the second place novel The Ancient Child was published sediment 1989. Other works include The Chap Made of Words: Essays, Fabled, Passages (1997),Three Plays (2007) and three apprentice books. He is a planner to Lewis and Clark through Amerind Eyes (2006) and to both grandeur English and French editions ofWriters for Literary and The Alphabet of Hope (UNESCO 2007). UNESCO also named him an Artist for Peace mark out 2003. His books have antique translated into seven languages. Proscribed has been a commentator pretend to have National Public Radio and on the rocks featured commentator in PBS documentaries. Momaday divides his time betwixt Oklahoma City where he appreciation the Centennial Poet Laureate leverage the State of Oklahoma, bid Santa Fe where he deterioration a Senior Scholar at rank School for Advanced Research. Remark addition, he is a One of the American Academy take in Arts and Sciences and holds 15 honorary degrees and many awards. He is the originator and chairman of The Throw Trust, a non-profit foundation tend the preservation and restoration time off Native American culture, a introduction trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, charge a founding member of integrity Stewardship Council of the Autry Center for the American Westernmost.