N. Scott Momaday
Kiowa author and academic (1934-2024) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 89
Navarre Scott Momaday was a Kiowa and American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance.
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2024Died24 January 20242021Robert Frost MedalAward2019Ken Burns American Heritage PrizeAward2010Owen Wister AwardAward2003Honorary Doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal UniversityAward2000St. Louis Literary AwardAward1969Pulitzer Prize for FictionAward1934Born27 February 1934
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Lived 1934 to 2024 · aged 89
