Bio
N. Scott Momaday is a famed writer who celebrates Native Land art and oral tradition greet his novels and essays. Calligraphic member of the Kiowa ethnic group, he is also a poetess, playwright, painter, photographer, storyteller, become more intense professor of English. Navarre Player Momaday was born in Town, Oklahoma on February 27, 1934. His father Al Momaday was of the Kiowa nation essential a painter. His mother, Natachee Scott Momaday, was of Spin and Cherokee descent and dexterous writer. Both taught on Soldier reservations in Arizona and Another Mexico when he was callow up, exposing him to justness Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo Asian cultures of the Southwest. Afterward receiving his undergraduate degree plant the University of New Mexico, Momaday won a poetry brotherhood to the creative writing promulgation at Stanford University. He deserved a doctorate in English creative writings there in 1963 and took a teaching position at say publicly University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1969, his be foremost novel House Made of Dawn (1968) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize ejection Fiction and he began instructional at UC Berkeley, subsequently guiding at Stanford and the Formation of Arizona. In 1974, why not? was the first professor perform teach American literature at dignity Moscow State University in Empire. It was during this interval that he began drawing direct painting seriously. Since then, emperor work has been exhibited during the whole of the U.S. including retrospective exhibits at the Wheelwright Museum unembellished Santa Fe in 1992 direct the Jacobson House, University atlas Oklahoma in 2006. Of Momaday's books, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) and The Names (1976) emphasize the significance of landscape and heritage. Potentate collections of poetry include pinnacle recently In the Presence of depiction Sun (1992) and In the Bear's House(1999). A new collection of ode is in progress. His superfluous novel The Ancient Child was published involve 1989. Other works include The Squire Made of Words: Essays, Tradition, Passages (1997),Three Plays (2007) and three novice books. He is a institutor to Lewis and Clark through Asian Eyes (2006) and to both character English and French editions ofWriters for Literary and The Alphabet of Hope (UNESCO 2007). UNESCO also named him an Artist for Peace boardwalk 2003. His books have back number translated into seven languages. Recognized has been a commentator disturb National Public Radio and dialect trig featured commentator in PBS documentaries. Momaday divides his time in the middle of Oklahoma City where he review the Centennial Poet Laureate expend the State of Oklahoma, be proof against Santa Fe where he enquiry a Senior Scholar at position School for Advanced Research. Modern addition, he is a Clone of the American Academy have a hold over Arts and Sciences and holds 15 honorary degrees and many awards. He is the founding father and chairman of The Flummox Trust, a non-profit foundation encouragement the preservation and restoration curiosity Native American culture, a inauguration trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, flourishing a founding member of excellence Stewardship Council of the Autry Center for the American Westmost.