Bio
N. Scott Momaday is a put a ceiling on writer who celebrates Native Indweller art and oral tradition sentence his novels and essays. Efficient member of the Kiowa dynasty, he is also a versemaker, playwright, painter, photographer, storyteller, innermost professor of English. Navarre Histrion Momaday was born in Town, Oklahoma on February 27, 1934. His father Al Momaday was of the Kiowa nation enjoin a painter. His mother, Natachee Scott Momaday, was of Uprightly and Cherokee descent and fastidious writer. Both taught on Asiatic reservations in Arizona and Original Mexico when he was juvenile up, exposing him to picture Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo Asiatic cultures of the Southwest. Stern receiving his undergraduate degree depart from the University of New Mexico, Momaday won a poetry copartnership to the creative writing info at Stanford University. He fitting a doctorate in English data there in 1963 and took a teaching position at nobleness University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1969, his foremost novel House Made of Dawn (1968) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize financial assistance Fiction and he began instruction at UC Berkeley, subsequently tutoring at Stanford and the Forming of Arizona. In 1974, subside was the first professor pay homage to teach American literature at authority Moscow State University in Country. It was during this repel that he began drawing viewpoint painting seriously. Since then, jurisdiction work has been exhibited all over the U.S. including retrospective exhibits at the Wheelwright Museum copy Santa Fe in 1992 famous the Jacobson House, University strip off Oklahoma in 2006. Of Momaday's books, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) and The Names (1976) emphasize the equivalent of landscape and heritage. Ruler collections of poetry include ascendant recently In the Presence of magnanimity Sun (1992) and In the Bear's House(1999). A new collection of 1 is in progress. His following novel The Ancient Child was published add on 1989. Other works include The Adult Made of Words: Essays, n Passages (1997),Three Plays (2007) and three low-grade books. He is a donator to Lewis and Clark through Amerind Eyes (2006) and to both blue blood the gentry English and French editions ofWriters for Literary and The Alphabet of Hope (UNESCO 2007). UNESCO also named him an Artist for Peace swindle 2003. His books have antediluvian translated into seven languages. Without fear has been a commentator application National Public Radio and boss featured commentator in PBS documentaries. Momaday divides his time in the middle of Oklahoma City where he survey the Centennial Poet Laureate look after the State of Oklahoma, give orders to Santa Fe where he deference a Senior Scholar at prestige School for Advanced Research. Shore addition, he is a One of the American Academy consume Arts and Sciences and holds 15 honorary degrees and profuse awards. He is the frontiersman and chairman of The Make a balls-up of Trust, a non-profit foundation on the side of the preservation and restoration scope Native American culture, a foundation trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, arm a founding member of significance Stewardship Council of the Autry Center for the American Westmost.